ABSTRACT
One incidental merit of public enterprises in Britain today is that those who study their control and behaviour are able to maintain a state of full employment. Currently there are three major enquiries being held. First, the Treasury and Civil Service Committee of the House of Commons are holding public hearings about the financing of nationalised industries. This is one of the new Committees established by Parliament when the former Select Committee on the Nationalised Industries (SCNI) was wound-up in 1980, after 28 years of useful service. It consists of Members of Parliament from both Government and Opposition under the Chairmanship of a Government back-bencher, at present the Conservative Edward du Cann. The Committee employs expert advisers. The SCNI used to focus its attention entirely upon the nationalised industries, but the new Committee is charged with enquiring into the activities of the Treasury and Civil Service Departments, and public enterprises are just one of their concerns.
