2.17 When the public private partnership was established, five per cent of the ordinary shares were vested in an Employees' trust to give the staff a direct financial stake in the success of the Company. The Government, BAA and the Airline Group agreed that the restructuring of NATS should leave Employees with the same proportion of the shares. Each shareholder gifted shares to the Employees' Trust, in strict proportion to their share holding. In the case of Government, the value of the shares gifted was £257,198.