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1985 Dec 28 - 1986 Jan 10
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

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

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Feb 19
Classification: Secret
Page count: 413
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86 Jan 8 We Major Westland: Powell minute for MT ("Westland: Cabinet Discussion") [revised draft speaking note] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 8 We Minor Westland: Powell minute for Cabinet Office (request to concert replies to PMQs by Austin Mitchell MP) [encloses] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 8 We Major Westland: Powell letter to Heseltine's PS ('Westland') [MT refuses to reopen decision to express no preference between offers; drafts also] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 9 Th Minor Westland: No.10 Press Office minute for Tebbit (media demands) [appearances at 1pm and on Question Time] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 9 Th Major Westland: MOD telegram to UKE Paris, Bonn, Rome, The Hague (Heseltine announces his resignation to fellow Defence Ministers) ["issues for which we jointly worked are of paramount importance"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 9 Th Key Westland: MT letter to Michael Heseltine (resignation) [drafts as well as final text of letter] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 9 Th Major Westland: Powell minute for Armstrong (MT meeting Amercian correspondents) ["If asked about Westlands" proposes she refers to attached statements] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 9 Th Major Westland: Ingham minute for MT ("Handling of Heseltine's resignation") [over next few days and weekend media will be trying "to make life difficult for the Government, and yourself especially"; response] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jan 10 Fr Major Westland: Powell minute for MT ("Westland: Mr Heseltine's Statement") ["knocking copy … in rather polemical terms"] [declassified Feb 2016]