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 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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Selections from this file
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| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 86 Jan 16 Th | Major | Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT (Westland: speech by Enoch Powell) [accuses MT of submitting to US blackmail] [released Dec 2014] |
| 86 Jan 16 Th | Major | Aerospace: Mark Addison minute to Nigel Wicks (Westland: letter from Chairman of British Aerospace to the Prime Minister concerning Leon Brittan's meeting with BA Chief Executive on 8 January 1986) [account of when letter arrived and when & to which staff it was subsequently relayed in No.10] [released Dec 2014] |
| 86 Jan 17 Fr | Major | Aerospace: Leon Brittan PS letter to No.10 ("Westland: Exchange of Letters with Sir Raymond Lygo") [line drawn over disputed recollections of 8 January 1986 meeting; exchange to be released to the media later that day; copies attached] [released Dec 2014] |
| 86 Jan 17 Fr | Major | Aerospace: Tim Flesher note to MT (Westland: Nicholas Ridley interview for BBC Radio 4, 16 January 1986) [transcript, following question put to MT in Parliament] [released Dec 2014] |
| 86 Jan 17 Fr | Major | Aerospace: Charles Powell notes to MT (Westland) [no interest in prolonging the controversy] [released Dec 2014] |
| 86 Jan 17 Fr | Major | Aerospace: Ministry of Defence record of conversation ("Westlands: Telephone Call From Mr Van Houwelingen, Netherlands Minister of State for Defence") [Lamont, Houwelingen: European collaboration on helicopters] [released Dec 2014] |
| 86 Jan 17 Fr | Major | Aerospace: Tim Flesher minute to Ingham ("Information Released to the Press") [timing in relation to conveyance of same information to Parliament] [released Dec 2014] |
| 86 Jan 20 Mo | Major | Aerospace: Leon Brittan letter to John Morris MP (Westland: Official Record of Meeting with the Chief Executive of British Aerospace, 8 January 1986) [request declined for sight of manuscript notes] [released Dec 2014] |
| 86 Jan 20 Mo | Major | Aerospace: Cabinet Office Economic Secretariat minute to Cabinet Secretary PS ("Westland") ["release of documents and the procedure relating to leak enquiries"] [released Dec 2014] |
| 86 Jan 20 Mo | Major | Aerospace: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Westland: Presentation of the Government's Case to Select Committees") [provision to Select Committee on Defence of documentation pertaining to helicopter procurement] [released Dec 2014] |
| 86 Jan 20 Mo | Major | Aerospace: Charles Powell note to MT (Westland) [constitutional position & role of the Prime Minister] [released Dec 2014] |
| 86 Jan 22 We | Major | Aerospace: Brittan PS letter to Cabinet Office ("Westland: Appearances Before the Select Committees") [press release announcing Trade & Industry committee inquiry & invite to Brittan to appear before the committee] [released Dec 2014] |
| 86 Jan 22 We | Major | Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT (Westland) [Heseltine, Tebbit: record of conversation on 20 January 1986, relayed to No.10 by Tebbit's office] [released Dec 2014] |
| 86 Jan 23 Th | Major | Aerospace: Department of Trade & Industry letter to Cabinet Office ("Westland") [Westland Chairman's diary released to media: DTI objects to Westland] [released Dec 2014] |
| 86 Jan 23 Th | Major | Aerospace: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Westland") [release to Defence Select Committee of Westland Chairman's correspondence with MT] [released Dec 2014] |
| 86 Jan 23 Th | Major | Aerospace: David Norgrove minute to Nigel Wicks ("Westland") [MT rules out Government publicising Heseltine conversations with UK/French industrial leaders, urging them to buy Westland shares] [released Dec 2014] |
| 86 Jan 23 Th | Major | Aerospace: DTI briefing (1215Z) ("Background Situation") ["Note prepared by Mr M.J. Michell on the instructions of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry" 12.15pm 23/1] [released Dec 2014] |
| 86 Jan 24 Fr | Major | Aerospace: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Westland") [Q&A relating to the disclosure of the Solicitor-General's letter] [released Dec 2014] |
| 86 Jan 24 Fr | Major | Aerospace: Brittan PS letter to No.10 (resignation) [encloses Brittan's letter for release, with MT's reply, at 1800] [released Dec 2014] |
| 86 Jan 24 Fr | Major | Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (Westland: inquiry into disclosure of Solicitor General's letter) [background information] [released Dec 2014] |