1985 Dec 10 - 1985 Dec 27
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1416
Aerospace (Westland Helicopters) (Part 1B)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2014 Dec 30 |
| Classification: | Confidential |
| Page count: | 213 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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Showing items 21 - 40 of 46
| Date |
Value |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 85 Dec 13 Fr | Major | Westland: Heseltine letter to Cuckney (European offer) [promises six extra Sea King orders & Europe only purchasing] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 13 Fr | Major | Westland: Heseltine minute for MT (‘Westland plc’) [“British Aerospace consortium”] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 13 Fr | Major | Westland: Wiggins minute for Unwin (‘Westlands’) [“today’s instalment”] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 16 Mo | Major | Westland: Brittan minute for MT (Westland) [seeks & receives approval from MT to make HC statement] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 16 Mo | Major | Westland: MOD letter to DTI (“Westland: Statement to the House”) [seeks amendments] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 17 Tu | Major | Westland: MT letter to Sir John Cuckney (reply to his letter of 13 Dec) [refers him to Brittan statement 16 December] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 17 Tu | Major | Westland: Chief Secretary minute for MT (Westland) [“the European solution would mean less competition and therefore increased costs”] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 18 We | Major | Westland: Charles Powell minute for MT (Heseltine briefing press) [information from “my friend in the MOD”] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 19 Th | Major | Westland: Draft Cabinet minutes (“Westland plc”) [line discussed & agreed] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 20 Fr | Major | Westland: Charles Powell minute for MT (“Westland”) [European offer made - “has quite a lot both for the bankers and the shareholders”] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 23 Mo | Major | Westland: Wicks minute for MT (“Westland”) [Fanshawe conversation - Heseltine would resign if European offer not accepted; his “humiliation in Cabinet”] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 24 Tu | Major | Westland: David Norgrove minute (‘Westland’) [overt & covert arguments in the Heseltine memorandum] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 27 Fr | Major | Westland: Press Association tape (developments) [new European move; bribery claim by Teddy Taylor] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 24 Th | Major | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 3rd (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, coal strike, exchange rates, Type 22 Frigates) [Heseltine dissents from Type 22 decision] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 12 Th | Major | Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 36th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Economic Affairs) [Heseltine raises Westland without notice] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 10 Tu | Major | Westland: John Wakeham note for Nigel [Wicks] (talk with Heseltine) [Heseltine thinks meeting on Friday a “Constitutional Necessity”] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 11 We | Major | Westland: Cabinet Office briefing for meeting (“Westlands E(A)(85)72”) [background] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 12 Th | Major | Westland: Brittan letter to Cuckney (deadline for European consortium) [if no “viable package” by 4pm Friday 13 Dec HMG will reject NAD recommendation] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 12 Th | Major | Westland: MOD record of conversation (Heseltine-Woerner phone call) [German reservations] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 13 Fr | Major | Westland: Wicks minute for Powell (‘Westlands’) [information from Whitmore] [declassified Dec 2014] |