1986 Jan 25 - 1986 Feb 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1669
Aerospace (Westland Helicopters) (Part 4)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2016 Feb 19 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 483 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 86 Jan 30 Th | Minor | Westland: Acland letter to Hayes (“Westland: Documents of 4 and 18 October 1985”) [no objection to DTI document release] [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Jan 31 Fr | Minor | Westland: Addison minute for MT (Sir Raymond Lygo requests meeting) [MT happy to see him but only "when the future of Westland HAS BEEN decided"] [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Feb 7 Fr | Major | Westland: Alan Bristow message for MT (copies her his press statement on Westland) [offer of a knighthood not made with government authority] [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Feb 6 Th | Major | Westland: Armstrong letter to Brittan (newspaper reports of his evidence to Defence Committee) [Wicks notes Brittan "very unhappy" with coverage in some papers] [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Feb 12 We | Major | Westland: Armstrong letter to Clerk of the Select Committee on Defence (corrections to transcript of his evidence) [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Jan 29 We | Major | Westland: Armstrong letter to Henry Steel (invitation to Solicitor General to give evidence to the Defence Committee) [Armstrong suggests refusal] [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Feb 12 We | Major | Westland: Armstrong letter to Sir Brian Hayes (release of DTI documents to Defence Select Committee) [approves] [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Feb 11 Tu | Major | Westland: Armstrong letter to Sir Brian Hayes (“Meeting with Sir Humphrey Atkins and Dr. Gilbert”) [agrees what to hand over to them, subject to approval by your Secretary of State] [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Jan 29 We | Major | Westland: Armstrong minute for Chief Whip (“Westland: Select Committees: Attendance of Officials”) [suggested line] [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Feb 4 Tu | Major | Westland: Armstrong minute for Clerk to the Defence Committee ("Select Committee on Defence") [offering to give evidence in place of Mitchell, Mogg, Ingham, Powell and Bowe] [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Jan 28 Tu | Major | Westland: Armstrong minute for MT (“Westland: Attendance at Select Committees”) [DTI & Defence Committees - handling of requests] [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Jan 31 Fr | Major | Westland: Armstrong minute for Murdo MacLean (“Westland: Officials Appearing Before Select Committees”) [summary of their discussion that evening] [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Jan 29 We | Major | Westland: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Westland: Evidence at Select Committees”) [agrees with Hayes that junior DTI officials should not appear; Channon inclined otherwise] [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Feb 17 Mo | Major | Westland: Armstrong minute for Wicks (inquiry into leak of Brittan minutes to Observer and BBC Panorama) [inconclusive, but came from Ministry of Defence; Heseltine had "the strongest motive and probably the best opportunity"] [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Feb 28 Fr | Major | Westland: Armstrong minute for Wicks (“Defence Committee”) [additional questions the committee wants to ask Armstrong - "a tremendous fishing expedition"] [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Jan 29 We | Major | Westland: Attorney General's Legal Secretary letter to Cabinet Office (“Westlands: Priority Written Questions for Answer by the Attorney General”) [draft answers] [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Jan 29 We | Major | Westland: Brian Hayes letter to Clerk to the Defence Committee (invitation to give evidence to the Defence Committee) [will appear with Macdonald and O'Shea but not Bowe, Mogg or Mitchell] [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Feb 4 Tu | Major | Westland: Brian Hayes letter to Clerk to the Defence Committee (Westland inquiry evidence) [provides summaries of two documents] [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Jan 27 Mo | Major | Westland: Brian Hayes letter to Wicks (amendments to MT’s draft speech in the debate on Westlands) ["there is clearly a conflict of testimony"] [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Feb 10 Mo | Major | Westland: Brian Hayes minute for Armstrong (“Meeting with Sir Humphrey Atkins and Dr. Gilbert”) [disagreement as to whether evidence could be published by Defence Committee without ministerial agreement] [declassified 2016] |