Radar - Thanks for the info.
The En-route service may well be accountably different from the airport services. However if TAG are given this bailout by government, this then helps TAG constituent airlines; TAG constituent airlines pay the majority of the airport authority fees at the (NATS)airports; these airport authorities then continue to be able to pay... the NATS airport's ATC contracts.
I know this is an over simplistic view, but it just seems that if this occurs that it would be an indirect state subsidy of one ATC provider, whilst other ATC providers (perhaps also in need of a boost to finances after 911) can go whistle.