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Mr. Gordon Brown
To 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:
| 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 |