§ Mr. Terry DavisTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill on 19 December 1989, if he will list the advisers to his Department present at the meeting between the Inland Revenue and British Aerospace at his Department in July 1988.
§ Mr. Ridley[holding answer 8 January 1990]: As was not uncommon in meetings between DTI and BAe, on 607W various technical aspects of the sale of Her Majesty's Government's shareholding in Rover Group during the negotiations, representatives of Baring Brothers and Slaughter and May were present to advise the Department on financial and legal matters.
§ Mr. Terry DavisTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to the reply to the hon. Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill, whether his Department was represented at any other meetings between the Inland Revenue and British Aerospace in 1988.
§ Mr. Ridley[holding answer 8 January 1990]: Two meetings were held in March 1988 at which the Department of Trade and Industry, British Aerospace and the Inland Revenue were all represented.