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 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 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 Feb 3 Mo | Major | Westland: Wicks minute for Armstrong (four questions put to MT by Sir David Wolfson) [possible answers] [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Feb 3 Mo | Major | Westland: Neil Kinnock letter to MT (urging publication of inquiry evidence and report) [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Feb 3 Mo | Minor | 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 | Major | Westland: Cabinet Office minute for Wicks (“Westland: Defence Select Committee”) [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Feb 4 Tu | Major | 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 | Major | Westland: Brian Hayes letter to Clerk to the Defence Committee (Westland inquiry evidence) [provides summaries of two documents] [declassified 2016] |
| 86 Feb 4 Tu | Major | Westland: Clerk to the Defence Committee letter to Armstrong (invitation to give evidence) [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 Feb 5 We | Major | Westland: Defence Select Committee transcript of evidence (Armstrong’s testimony) [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 7 Fr | Major | 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 | 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 10 Mo | Major | 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 | Key | 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 | 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] |
| 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 Feb 12 We | Major | Westland: DTI letter to Clerk to the Defence Committee (enclosing extracted DTI documents on Westland affair) [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] |