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1986 Jan 12 - 1986 Jan 24
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1668
Aerospace (Westland Helicopters) (Part 3)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Feb 19
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 318
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86 Jan 8 Wed Aerospace: Department of Trade & Industry record of conversation ("Meeting with Sir Raymond Lygo: 8 January 1986") [Leon Brittan, Geoffrey Pattie, Lygo: Westland] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 12 Sun Westland: Powell minute for MT (“Meeting of Ministers: 13 January: Westland”) [points for decision - government statement on Monday? how to respond to Cuckney letter on NADS?] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 13 Mon Westland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan, Tebbit, Younger, Havers, Wakeham; Armstrong, Whitmore, Michelle) [Brittan to make HC statement that afternoon] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 13 Mon Westland: Brittan draft HC statement (correcting earlier statement) [Sir Austin Pearce letter] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 13 Mon Westland: MacGregor letter to Younger (NADS recommendations) [important not to restrict ability to seek international competitive tender when purchasing helicopters] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 13 Mon Aerospace: Ministry of Defence letter to Chairman of Westland (Ministry of Defence policy on European consortium bid for helicopters contract) [answers to questions put to MoD by Sir John Cuckney] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 13 Mon Aerospace: Department of Trade & Industry letter to Chairman of Westland (UK Government policy on European consortium bid for helicopters contract) [reaffirmation of Government's position] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 13 Mon Aerospace: Ingham note to Charles Powell (Westland) ['New Statesman' article] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 13 Mon Aerospace: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Westland") ["scenario for this afternoon" in Parliament; Leon Brittan statements to the House on his 8 January meeting with Chief Executive of British Aerospace] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 13 Mon Aerospace: Chairman of British Aerospace letter to MT (Westland: Sir Raymond Lygo and Sir Austin Pearce's meetings with Leon Brittan) [note of meetings on 13 Dec 1985 & 8 Jan 1986; emphasises BA's position on Westland issue in contrast to DTI's] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 13 Mon Aerospace: Cabinet Secretary letter to Heseltine (Westland: record of Cabinet discussion on 12 December 1985) [omission of Westland dicussion from minutes, referred to by Heseltine in Parliament on his resignation] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 14 Tue Westland: Wicks minute to MT (draft reply to Pearce) [Lygo meeting with Brittan, 9 Jan] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 14 Tue Aerospace: Department of Energy press release ("Walker's Hopes for Heseltine") [Walker expresses support for Heseltine following latter's resignation over Westland affair] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 14 Tue Aerospace: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Westland Helicopters: European Parliament Debate") ["Ministerial intervention might reach the press and highlight what may otherwise be a typical EP sideshow"; line to take for media] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 14 Tue Aerospace: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Austin Pearce, Nigel Wicks) [release to media of MT/Pearce correspondence regarding Leon Brittan meeting with Chief Executive of British Aerospace on 8 January; DTI/Lygo records of meeting] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 15 Wed Aerospace: No.10, Amanda Ross note to Nigel Wicks (Westland: record of events on 8 January 1986) [copies retained/destroyed] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 15 Wed Aerospace: MT letter to Chairman of British Aerospace (Westland: Secretary of State for Trade & Industry meeting with Chief Executive of BAe on 8 January 1986) [clarification/reaffirmation of Government's position, following conflicting accounts of the meeting, subsequent publications of those accounts & related correspondence, and addresses to Parliament] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 15 Wed Aerospace: Charles Powell note to MT (Westland: BAe Chief Executive's record of his meeting with Secretary of State for Trade & Industry on 8 January 1986) [publication; DTI note attached, offering analysis & comparison to official DTI record and to BAe Chair's version] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 15 Wed Aerospace: Head of Department of Trade & Industry Air Division minute to Leon Brittan PS ("Westland") [commentary on two versions - BAE Chair's summary of BAe Chief Executive's record & official DTI record - of the meeting between Chief Executive of BAe and Secretary of State for Trade & Industry on 8 January 1986] [released Dec 2014]
86 Jan 15 Wed Aerospace: No.10 Parliamentary Clerk minute to Tim Flesher ("Official Box for Westland Debate") [list of officials to attend; Hansard record of Debate & subsequent Hansard records attached] [released Dec 2014]