	u k treasury confirms bp sale to go ahead the british treasury confirmed that the sale of british petroleum co plc will go ahead as planned despite monday s stock market crash which forced bp below the p a share set for the billion stg issue the government are not considering terminating the bp offer the offer has been fully underwritten a treasury spokesman said the issue which remains open until october was fully underwritten last week when the issue price was set bp shares closed down p at p as the ft se share index crashed a record points more than pct reuter 
