From the BBC web site. It appears that they are going to keep with their original decision.
Chinook pilots 'will not be cleared'
The pilots' families have vowed to clear their names
Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon is expected to reject the findings of an inquiry that exonerated the two pilots blamed for a Chinook helicopter crash eight years ago.
It is anticipated that he will reject the conclusions of a select committee report into the Mull of Kintyre accident which decided pilot error could not be blamed.
The crash killed 29 people - many of them senior Northern Ireland intelligence experts.
The helicopter came down in Scotland
Pilots Jonathan Tapper, 30, from Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk, and Richard Cook, 28, from Church Crookham, Hants, were among those who died when the helicopter crashed in thick fog on its way from Northern Ireland to Inverness in June 1994.
The pilots' fathers have vowed to fight on to clear the pilots' names, regardless of the decision of defence officials.
There is wide speculation that Mr Hoon will refuse to overturn the findings of the Royal Air Force marshals who investigated the crash in 1996.
They concluded the two pilots must have been flying too fast and too low in foggy conditions.
Other investigations have since challenged that assumption.
Opinion divided
It is reported ministers will say there are no new grounds for reconvening the RAF Board of Inquiry or setting aside the verdicts of gross negligence.
Ahead of Mr Hoon's statement, the pilots' fathers, Mike Tapper and John Cook expressed their disappointment.
They said: "We cannot understand how the Ministry of Defence can reject the findings of such a distinguished group of peers from all political parties.
"As the Lords' report demonstrated, the MoD report is built not on fact but on assumptions.
"How the MoD can continue insisting that its story stands up is incomprehensible to us."
'Flawed investigation'
The RAF's own internal inquiry ruled it was impossible to establish the cause but there were no "human failings".
But that was overturned by RAF officers, Air Vice Marshal John Day and Air Chief Marshal Sir William Wratten.
Then a fatal accident inquiry in Paisley, outside Glasgow, said the cause of the accident was a mystery and the RAF investigation flawed.
The House of Lords select committee has also cast doubt on the findings of the RAF air marshals.
There is also anger at the timing of Mr Hoon's announcement as the summer recess means there will be no time for a debate on the issue.
But Lord Chalfont has stressed that even if the MoD refuses to overturn the verdicts there will be a debate in the House of Lords after the recess.