Lee - I'm not seeing this symptom. From a stock fully updated Xenial
image:

rtg@ubuntu:~$ uname -r
4.4.0-64-generic
rtg@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-generic-hwe-16.04
[sudo] password for rtg: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  linux-headers-4.8.0-36 linux-headers-4.8.0-36-generic 
linux-headers-generic-hwe-16.04
  linux-image-4.8.0-36-generic linux-image-extra-4.8.0-36-generic 
linux-image-generic-hwe-16.04 thermald
Suggested packages:
  fdutils linux-tools
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-generic-hwe-16.04 linux-headers-4.8.0-36 linux-headers-4.8.0-36-generic
  linux-headers-generic-hwe-16.04 linux-image-4.8.0-36-generic 
linux-image-extra-4.8.0-36-generic
  linux-image-generic-hwe-16.04 thermald
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 72.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 316 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n

It looks to me like it will do the right thing.

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  linux-image-hwe-16.04 depends on linux-generic-hwe-16.04-edge

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