UK Government Investments

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UK Government Investments Limited
Company type State owned holding company
Predecessors
Founded1 April 2016;9 years ago (2016-04-01)
Headquarters London, England, UK
Key people
 Vindi Banga (Chairman)
Parent HM Treasury
Website www.ukgi.org.uk OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

UK Government Investments (UKGI) is a company owned by the Government of the United Kingdom which combines the former functions of the Shareholder Executive and UK Financial Investments.

Contents

UKGI manages a portfolio of businesses, including Channel Four Television Corporation and previously NatWest Group. [1] [2]

History

The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in London. [3]

On 30 May 2025, UKGI sold the last of the UK government's shares in NatWest Group. [4]

List of companies

As of August 2025, the public sector and state owned enterprises, wholly or partially owned, which the UKGI works with are: [5]

Senior leadership

List of former chairmen

  1. Robert Swannell (2016–2021) [8]

List of former chief executives

  1. Mark Russell (2016–2019), who had been deputy chief executive at the Shareholder Executive since 2008 and chief executive of that body from 2013 until its merger into UKGI. [9]

References

  1. ↑ "Our Partner Bodies". Archived from the original on 6 October 2022. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  2. ↑ Wearden, Graeme; Fletcher, Nick; Partington, Richard (4 June 2018). "UK government to sell £2.6bn of RBS shares, Brexit hits UK construction- as it happened". The Guardian .
  3. ↑ "UK Government Investments Limited". Companies House .
  4. ↑ "Government completes exit from NatWest". gov.uk. 30 May 2025. Retrieved 4 June 2025.
  5. ↑ "What we do - Governance". UK Government Investments.
  6. ↑ "Co-op sets up Reclaim Fund". The Business Desk. 29 March 2011. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  7. ↑ "Vindi Banga appointed as new Chair of UK Government Investments". UK Government Investments. 2 August 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  8. ↑ "Robert Swannell". GOV.UK. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  9. ↑ Johnstone, Richard (25 June 2020). "Shareholder stories: ex-UKGI chief Mark Russell on life as Whitehall's corporate governance guru". Civil Service World. Retrieved 13 July 2024.


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