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PREM19/1099
Parliament (Select Committee report on future of Concorde aircraft; financial aspects; discussions with French)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 289
Themes: Industry, Executive, Parliament

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Date Value Title
80 Dec 12 Fr Major Parliament: Adam Butler letter to Keith Joseph (Concorde) [meeting with French Transport Minister; Select Committee enquiry into costs & operation of Concorde] [declassified Aug 2013]
81 May 28 Th Minor Parliament: Pym letter to Edward du Cann MP (Government reply to Select Committee Report on Concorde) [procedure] [declassified Aug 2013]
81 Jun 16 Tu Major Parliament: Keith Joseph PS letter to Cabinet Office ("Government reply to Select Committee Report on Concorde") [outline of procedure] [declassified Aug 2013]
81 Jun 22 Mo Major Parliament: Tebbit letter to Keith Joseph ("Government reply to Select Committee Report on Concorde") ["I am writing to you, as Chairman of E(EA), to seek your approval... to the attached Government reply"; summary of Inquiry, Report & Government Reply] [declassified Aug 2013]
81 Jun 30 Tu Major Parliament: Biffen letter to Keith Joseph ("Government reply to Select Committee Report on Concorde") ["While I am quite content with the text of the reply... I do not think it would be appropriate for it to be presented to Parliament, as Norman [Tebbit] suggests, by you and me jointly"] [declassified Aug 2013]
81 Jul 3 Fr Major Parliament: Tebbit letter to Brittan ("Government reply to Select Committee Report on Concorde") [comments on Brittan's proposed revisions to draft reply] [declassified Aug 2013]
81 Jul 8 We Major Parliament: Tebbit letter to Lord Trenchard ("Government reply to Select Committee Report on Concorde") [cancellation costs] [declassified Aug 2013]
81 Jul 9 Th Major Parliament: Tebbit letter to Howell ("Government reply to Select Committee Report on Concorde") [British Airways fuel price forecast] [declassified Aug 2013]
81 Jul 10 Fr Major Parliament: Tebbit letter to Prior ("Government reply to Select Committee Report on Concorde") ["the Committee have failed to take account... that what is really at issue in determining PSBR costs is not the extent to which discharged Concorde workers can find alternative employment, but the rate of job creation"] [declassified Aug 2013]
81 Jul 13 Mo Major Parliament: Tebbit letter to Pym ("Government reply to Select Committee Report on Concorde") [PQ; Parliamentary debate] [declassified Aug 2013]
81 Nov 26 Th Minor Parliament: Iain Sproat letter to Lamont ("Concorde Finances") ["Prolonged delay in reaching a decision on Concorde could well be the most damaging course of all... We must not, of course, let ourselves be hustled... "] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Apr 8 Th Major Parliament: Lamont letter to Jenkin ("The Future of Concorde") [joint studies by British/French officials; plans for the Anglo-French Ministerial meeting 6 May] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 May 11 Tu Major Parliament: Lamont PS letter to Jenkin PS ("Select Committee Report on Concorde") [Government reply to Committee recommendations; PQ] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 May 11 Tu Major Parliament: Lamont letter to Jenkin ("Future of Concorde") [meeting with French Minister of Transport] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 May 17 Mo Major Parliament: Rifkind letter to Lamont ("Future of Concorde") ["should [British Airways]... decide to continue the Concorde service without HMG's financial support, the French... may not feel able to terminate their own in-service support to Air France"; MT notes "If the French keep in-service support going - we shall have to"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jul 28 We Major Parliament: Brittan letter to Jenkin ("The Future of Concorde") ["If [British Airways]... are not willing to accept... [the costs of in-service support] there is no point in further discussions and we should make arrangements to terminate Concorde operations"; MT notes "I think this will have a bad effect on morale in Britain... Concorde must continue"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 11 Th Major Parliament: Lamont letter to Iain Sproat ("Future of Concorde") ["it would be helpful to [the Chair of British Airways]... if you were to let him know soon the Government's attitude to the contractual points raised in his letter... before he sends his definitive reply"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 6 Mo Major Parliament: Rifkind letter to Brittan ("Future of Concorde") [talks with British Airways and with the French; "The French are clearly suspicious that we are intending to withdraw from involvement in the Concorde programme, leaving them to support the project by themselves"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 7 Tu Minor Parliament: Lamont letter to Iain Sproat ("The Future of Concorde") [MT notes "If [BA]... make profits (and I hope they do) [from Concorde] let them retain those profits"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 20 Mo Major Parliament: Lamont letter to Jenkin ("The Future of Concorde") [PQ reply; letter to French Minister for Transport; Chair of British Airways "has proposed a long list of conditions which could lead to protracted negotiations"] [declassified Aug 2013]