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PDF 85 Dec 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute to MT ("Gas") [meeting to discuss Treasuy/Department of Energy disagreement over import/export policy] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker minute to MT ("Privatisation") [response to Ridley proposals for breaking up of British Gas into smaller companies; separate accounting for subsidiary companies] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Solicitor General letter to Peter Walker ("Privatisation of British Gas") [advice on "EEC Admission Directive of a percentage limitation on the holding by any individual or group of individuals acting in concert of shares in British Gas"] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT ("Gas Industry Privatisation") [Peter Walker paper for E(A) sub-committee: imports & exports; Department of Energy/Treasury dispute of licence to BGC] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Gas Industry Privatisation: Gas Imports and Exports") [Peter Walker paper for E(A) sub-committee on future policy and its presentation] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Gas Imports and Exports") [Peter Walker's key arguments; case for 'open door' policy] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker minute to MT ("Gas Bill") [Second Reading; protecting customers/price control system] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Treasury record of conversation (Nigel Lawson, Peter Walker) ["Gas Exports"] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Gas Bill: Draft Licence") [addressing need to ensure even-handed treatment of contract customers] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Gas Privatisation") [defensive lines to take; need for early resolution of Treasury/Department of Energy debate over imports/exports policy] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to John Moore ("Gas Privatisation: Special Share and Related Issues") [merits of BT-type special share] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to David Norgrove ("Regulation of the Gas Industry") [analysis of Commons Energy Committee report] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to John MacGregor ("BGC: Manuals Pay Negotiations") ["BGC have achieved as good a settlement as we could possibly have expected"] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker minute to MT ("Gas Imports and Exports") [draft PQ announcement on policy] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Whitelaw ("Gas Bill: House of Lords") ["any extra time we can obtain between the Bill reaching Statute Book and the Offer for Sale will be of great value to the success of BGC privatisation"] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute to MT ("Gas Imports and Exports") [details of imminent Walker announcement of more liberal regime] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: John Moore letter to Peter Walker ("Select Committee on Energy: Report on Gas Privatisation") [proposed amendment to Walker's draft reply to Committee, to emphasise British Gas' "scope for expansion and growth in profits"] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: John Moore letter to Peter Walker ("Gas Bill: Amendments at Report Stage") [case for accepting Energy Select Committee's proposed amendments regarding gas supply business accounts] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Brigadier J. Budd minute to Brian Unwin ("Power Workers - SitRep") [threat of industrial action over pay negotiations: "plenty of negotiating time... for a settlement"; however, MT concerned about complacency] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT ("Electricity Supply Industry Pay") [meeting with Peter Walker to discuss threat of industrial action and NCB/CEGB negotiations on coal burn/coal prices] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Peter Walker) [ESI pay negotiations; British Coal/CEGB negotiations over coal prices/supply] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office note for the record ("Coal and Electricity Prices") [E(A)86: 12th Meeting: Peter Walker "invited... to encourage the ESI and the NCB to negotiate an interim reduction on coal prices to reflect the fall in oil prices"] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Threatened Industrial Action by Works in the Electricity Supply Industry (ESI)") [national contingency plans] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Gas Privatisation") [employee share scheme; disagreement with Peter Walker over customer share scheme] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("BGC Privatisation") [marketing of the customer share scheme and employee share scheme] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("BGC Privatisation: Selling and Distribution Commission") ["It is vital to motivate all those concerned with the sale"; comparison with BT sale] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT ("BGC Privatisation") ["meeting with Mr. Walker and the Chancellor to try to resolve the differences between them about the employee and customer share schemes"] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (BGC Privatisation) [customer share scheme; employee share scheme] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Peter Walker) ["Gas Privatisation": customer share scheme; employee share scheme] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute to MT ("B.G.C.") ["very concerning" recount to No.10 of comments made by Chairman of British Gas Corporation expressing "contempt" for OFGAS regulatory body, post-privatisation] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("New Norwegian Gas Deal") [analysis of deal with Western European countries; UK interests; defensive lines against possible British Gas Corporation criticism of UK Government blocking original Sleipner deal] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to David Norgrove ("Gas Privatisation - Financial Package for Flotation") [endorsement of Department of Energy/Treasury efforts; announcement of terms] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jun 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to Lord Hailsham ("Gas Bill: Commencement") ["we shall need to dispense with the usual two month period between Royal Assent and the Bill's coming into effect"] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jul 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Peter Walker ("BCG Privatisation: Finance Bill") [tax issues] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Aug 22 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Department of Energy letter to Department of the Environment ("Privatisation of British Gas - Disclosure of Promoters' Interests") [request to Departments for details of any dealings between the Crown, as one of the promoters, and British Gas] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to John MacGregor ("Revision of Electricity Area Board Tariffs: 1 October 1986") [results of Electricity Council review; "[in]sufficient grounds for me to suggest... deferring the intended further price reduction... I shall however make clear... the great importance which the Government attaches to the EFL being met"] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Peter Walker ("BGC Privatisation: Customer Mail Shot") [details of the shares offer] [released Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Sep 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to John MacGregor ("ESI's EFL 1986-87: Supplementary Capital Approvals and Tariff Revision from 1 October") [case for approval of additional capital expenditure; ESI assurance that the industry will meet the EFL; Electricity Council announcement of tariffs reductions] [released Feb 2016]
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