§ Mr. Gordon BrownTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list the dates in 1988 and those present when the tax arrangements governing the sale of Rover were discussed.
§ Mr. Ridley[holding answer 12 March 1990]: I understand that tax aspects of the sale of the Government shareholding in the Rover Group to British Aerospace were the principal subject discussed at the following meetings held in 1988:
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Date Organisations represented 29 February DTI and Inland Revenue 8 March DTI, Inland Revenue, Baring Brothers and Slaughter & May 10 March Inland Revenue, Baring Brothers and Slaughter & May 24 March DTI, Inland Revenue, British Aerospace, Slaughter & May, Peat Marwick McLintock and Linklaters & Paines 28 March Inland Revenue, British Aerospace, Rover Group, Slaughter & May, Peat Marwick McLintock, Linklaters & paines and Ashurst Morris Crisp
Date Organisations represented 28 April Inland Revenue and Slaughter & May 29 June DTI, Inland Revenue, Her Majesty's Treasury, Rover Group, British Aerospace, Slaughter & May, Peat Marwick McLintock and Linklaters & Paines 6 July DTI, Inland Revenue, British Aerospace, Slaughter & May, Linklaters & Paines, Peat Marwick McLintock