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PREM19/1667
Aerospace (Westland Helicopters) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Feb 19
Classification: Secret
Page count: 413

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Date Value Title
86 Jan 5 Su Major Westland: Powell minute for MT ('Westland') [call from Cuckney: board decision to recommend Sikorksky offer] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 6 Mo Major Westland: Powell minute for MT ("Prime Minister") [attaches "Fact Sheet"; important it should not be seen as a No.10 document] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 6 Mo Major Westland: Heseltine letter to David Horne (MD Lloyds Bank) (Solicitor-General's letter) [no correction needed to Heseltine's earlier letter to Horne] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 6 Mo Major Westland: Norgrove minute for Powell ('Charles') [Heseltine quoted on news calling Solicitor-General's letter "an astonishing piece of legal pedantry"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 6 Mo Major Westland: Westland Board circular to shareholders and press release (EGM 14 Jan 1986) [board recommends Sikorsky offer] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 6 Mo Major Westland: Powell minute to Armstrong ('Westland') [commisions reply to Ashdown letters] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 6 Mo Major Westland: Powell letter to Foreign Secretary's PS ("Westland: Comments by Commissioner Narjes") [records Howe's commitment to investigate comments] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 6 Mo Key Westland: Solicitor-General letter to Heseltine ('Westland') ["material inaccuracies" in Heseltine's earlier letter to Horne which he should correct; Powell annotates it "very satisfactory"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 6 Mo Key Westland: Heseltine letter to Solicitor-General ('Westland') [no "material inaccuracies" needing correction] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 6 Mo Major Westland: DTI letter to Powell ('Westland') [encloses briefing over last few days at MT's request, plus 24 Dec note on NH90 project] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 6 Mo Major Westland: Heseltine PS letter to Powell ('Westland') [Heseltine wants government "to express again the preference it originally held for a European minority stake"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 7 Tu Major Westland: UKE Rome telegram to Foreign Office (Italian statement about Westland) ["implications of great relevance to the process of European collaboration"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 7 Tu Major Westland: Unwin minute for Powell (replying to Heseltine letter of 6 Jan) [assesses his claims about 9 Dec E(A) decision on NADS] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 7 Tu Major Westland: Armstrong minute for Wicks ("Draft speaking note on Westland") [for MT in cabinet - "We cannot go on like this"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 7 Tu Minor Westland: Powell minute for Wicks (improved European offer) [to be announced at 1600] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 7 Tu Minor Westland: Ingham minute for MT (cabinet tomorrow) [arrangements for briefing press: "It will be important to move quickly on Westland"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 7 Tu Major Westland: MT letter to Paddy Ashdown (reply to his letters) [Powell and Armstrong drafts] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 7 Tu Key Westland: Solicitor-General letter to Heseltine ('Westland') [glad that Heseltine is confident his earlier letter was accurate, judgment his responsibility; concern at leak however] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 8 We Key Westland: MT speaking note for cabinet ("a word about Westland") ["We cannot go on like this … even questions of fact should be cleared through the Cabinet Office"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 8 We Major Westland: FCO telegram to UKE Rome (Italian statement about Westland) [tell them "not helpful for governments to make statements about matters of this kind which are internal to the UK"] [declassified Feb 2016]