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PREM19/1670
Aerospace (Westland Helicopters) (Part 5)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Feb 19
Classification: Secret
Page count: 303
Themes: Media, Executive, Judiciary, Parliament, Defence (general), Employment, Industry, Public spending & borrowing, Trade

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Date Value Title
86 Feb 7 Fr Major Westland: No.10 press notice (“Westland: A Statement by the Prime Minister”) [rejects claim that knighthood was offered to Alan Bristow to assist in negotiations] [declassified 2016]
86 Mar 3 Mo Major Westland: Armstrong minute for Wicks (“Defence Select Committee”) [Westland: oral evidence] [declassified 2016]
86 Mar 4 Tu Major Westland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Defence Select Committee”) [Westland] [declassified 2016]
86 Mar 6 Th Major Westland: Department of Trade & Industry letter to Clerk to the Defence Committee (memoranda on the Westland affair) [declassified 2016]
86 Mar 7 Fr Major Westland: Cabinet Office letter to Department of Trade & Industry (books on Westland affair) [policy on requests to officials for interviews] [declassified 2016]
86 Mar 10 Mo Major Westland: Stark minute to No.10 (Defence Select Committee: Westland inquiry) [Robert Armstrong oral evidence] [declassified 2016]
86 Mar 14 Fr Major Westland: UKHC New Delhi telegram to FCO (“Westlands”) [trade deal confirmed] [declassified 2016]
86 Mar 20 Th Major Westland: MT letter to Rajiv Gandhi (Westlands helicopter contract) [declassified 2016]
86 Mar 27 Th Major Westland: Wicks minute to MT (Trade & Industry Select Committee: Westland inquiry) [Alan Bristow’s refusal to disclose two names] [declassified 2016]
86 Apr 8 Tu Major Westland: Wicks minute to MT (Trade & Industry Select Committee: Westland inquiry) [Dalyell calls for prosecutions and Speaker rejects complaint from Committee] [declassified 2016]
86 Apr 21 Mo Major Westland: Defence Committee letter to No.10 (Westland inquiry) [transcript of evidence] [declassified 2016]
86 Jul 15 Tu Major Westland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Select Committee on Defence: Westland report) [MT on press leaks: “We do nothing. This report is like any other”] [declassified 2016]
86 Jul 15 Tu Minor Westland: Cabinet Office minute to Ingham (Select Committee on Defence: Westland inquiry) [promotion of Brittan’s former PPS] [declassified 2016]
86 Jul 16 We Major Westland: Ingham minute to MT (“Westland Report - media handling”) [declassified 2016]
86 Jul 16 We Major Westland: Legal Secretary to the Attorney General letter to No.10 (“Report of the Select Committee on Defence on Westland”) [declassified 2016]
86 Jul 17 Th Major Westland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“The Westland Report - media handling”) [declassified 2016]
86 Jul 18 Fr Major Westland: Wicks minute to Ingham (“Westland Reports - media handling”) [declassified 2016]
86 Jul 21 Mo Major Westland: Cabinet Office minute to Chief Whip (“Response to Select Committee on Defence Reports on Westland”) [declassified 2016]
86 Jul 22 Tu Major Westland: Cabinet Office minute to Attorney General (Westland inquiry) [disclosure of the Solicitor General’s letter] [declassified 2016]
86 Jul 22 Tu Major Westland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“The Reports of the Select Committee on Defence on Westland”) [declassified 2016]