Rover sale to British Aerospace

Title

Rover sale to British Aerospace

Genre

News report; Speech; Special

TX Date

17 Jan 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:03:11

Description

Peter Murphy reports on the House of Commons select committee meeting about the sale of Rover to British Aerospace following allegations of Government payments to sweeten the deal. Includes former Trade and Industry Secretary Lord Young (David Young) giving evidence to the committee and Labour’s Doug Hoyle asking him about the terms involved with the payment.

Contributors

Peter Murphy; Doug Hoyle; David Young

Keywords

Car industry; Motor vehicle industry; British Aerospace; House of Commons; Corruption; Political corruption; Committees; Business acquisitions; Rover

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