It was left up to Odiham to do Boscombe Down's job.
To be fair to Boscombe, while part of MoD at the time, like industry they could only react under formal tasking. In any case, you may find the nature of Puma design support arrangements at the time meant we had to conduct business with the French. Their well known refusal to maintain configuration control would mean they'd take 6 months to consider a request, then reply "What's a rotor blade?"