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86 Jan 25 Sa	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Westland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Reagan) [letting her know that “out here in the colonies” she had a friend] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 26 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Griffiths minute for MT (“Westland Speech: 27 January”) [suggested improvements] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Legal Secretary to the Attorney General minute for Powell (“Prime Minister’s Speech in the Debate on Westland - Monday 27 January 1986”) [suggested amendments by Solicitor-General] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	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 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Ingham minute for Wicks (result of DTI 'gossiping') [MT may be asked whether Ingham was active in getting the letter leaked] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 27 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Westland Debate: Leak Inquiries”) [notes for possible supplementaries at PMQs] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 28 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Brian Hayes letter to Wicks (appreciation for MT’s statement on DTI’s involvement) ["scrupulously fair and accurate"] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 28 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Armstrong minute for MT (“Westland: Attendance at Select Committees”) [DTI & Defence Committees - handling of requests] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 28 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Hurd PS to Wicks (transcript of BBC Today interview with Home Secretary, 28 Jan) [Hurd's remarks "inaccurately presented" in Evening Standard report of interview] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 28 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Younger letter to MacGregor (competitive tendering in defence procurement) [case by case approach] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Powell minute for MT (“Westland: Defence Select Committee”) [plans to persuade Defence Committee not to persist in calling DTI & No.10 officials] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Clerk to the Defence Committee letter to Powell (invitation to give evidence) [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	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 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	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	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Armstrong minute for Chief Whip (“Westland: Select Committees: Attendance of Officials”) [suggested line] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Armstrong letter to Henry Steel (invitation to Solicitor General to give evidence to the Defence Committee) [Armstrong suggests refusal] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 29 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	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 Jan 30 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Defence Committee Press Notice (inquiry into Westland affair: official witnesses and scope)
86 Jan 30 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Acland letter to Hayes (“Westland: Documents of 4 and 18 October 1985”) [no objection to DTI document release] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 30 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Clive Whitmore minute for Hayes (“Westland: Documents of 4 and 18 October 1985”) [release of DTI documents] [declassified 2016]
86 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	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 Jan 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Armstrong minute for Murdo MacLean (“Westland: Officials Appearing Before Select Committees”) [summary of their discussion that evening] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Wicks minute for Armstrong (four questions put to MT by Sir David Wolfson) [possible answers] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Neil Kinnock letter to MT (urging publication of inquiry evidence and report) [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Clerk to the Defence Committee letter to Powell (invitation to give evidence before the Defence Committee) [likely to be postponed] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 4 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Cabinet Office minute for Wicks (“Westland: Defence Select Committee”) [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 4 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Cabinet Office minute for Wicks (“Westland: Prime Minister’s Statements about the disclosure of the Solicitor General’s letter of 6 January and the Enquiry into that disclosure”) [questions & issues] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 4 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Brian Hayes letter to Clerk to the Defence Committee (Westland inquiry evidence) [provides summaries of two documents] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 4 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Clerk to the Defence Committee letter to Armstrong (invitation to give evidence) [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 4 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	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 Feb 5 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Defence Select Committee transcript of evidence (Armstrong’s testimony) [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	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 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: DTI record of conversation (Lansley call to Alan Bristow) [Bristow agreeing that Tebbit could refer to earlier conversation; Bristow unable to ignore Cuckney concert party accusation] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	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 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: DTI record of conversation (Sir Brian Hayes, Sir Humphrey Atkins, John Gilbert) ["Discussion of the terms under which information was to be handed over [to] Sir Humphrey & Dr Gilbert"] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Westland: No.10 record of telephone conversation (Wicks, Brittan) [Brittan critical of Armstrong evidence, "a flagrant steer … in a particular direction which he could not accept"] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	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]
86 Feb 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	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 Feb 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: DTI letter to Clerk to the Defence Committee (enclosing extracted DTI documents on Westland affair) [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Armstrong letter to Sir Brian Hayes (release of DTI documents to Defence Select Committee) [approves] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Powell minute for Wicks (“Westland: Lord Trefgarne”) [line to take over "mystery shareholders"] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Armstrong letter to Clerk of the Select Committee on Defence (corrections to transcript of his evidence) [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 14 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Wicks minute for MT (draft response to Owen letter) [refusing demand for disciplinary action against Powell and Ingham] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	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 19 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Defence Committee letter to Department of Trade and Industry (press release of DTI documents) [encloses copy] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 25 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Department of Trade and Industry letter to Armstrong (memoranda for Defence Select Committee) [follow up to Hayes evidence] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 25 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Wicks minute for MT (Defence Select Commitee) [Chief Whip saw three Conservtive members of committee & thinks they will now drop plans to call Powell and Ingham as witnesses] [declassified 2016]
86 Feb 28 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Westland: Armstrong minute for Wicks (“Defence Committee”) [additional questions the committee wants to ask Armstrong - "a tremendous fishing expedition"] [declassified 2016]

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