1980 Jul 15 - 1981 Mar 4
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/539
Nationalised industries (Coal mines) (Part 2)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2011 Dec 30 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 189 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 81 Feb 2 Mo | Major | Coal: Edwards minute to MT ("Coal") [Edwards "perturbed" that unions will receive details of pit closures before the Government] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 11 We | Major | Coal: Howell minute to MT ("Coal Industry Review") ["very difficult" meeting between NCB and NUM regarding pit closures] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 13 Fr | Major | Coal: Howell minute to MT ("Coal Industry Review") [NUM decides "to recommend industrial action to a ballot of members if the NCB does not withdraw its 'plans for closures'"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 13 Fr | Major | Coal: Ingham minute to MT ("Miners") [thoughts on threat of strike by coal miners: "I am frankly concerned at the apparently relaxed approach of the Government to the threat"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 16 Mo | Major | Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howell-Prior-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Pym-Brittan-Moore) [threat of miners' strike: situation "turning sour very quickly"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 17 Tu | Major | Coal: Text of Howell statement to the House of Commons ("The Coal Industry") [announces negotiations between Government, NCB and NUM in attempt to avoid strike over pit closures] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 17 Tu | Major | Coal: Ingham minute to MT (report on Lobby briefing: threatened miners' strike) ["I faced an extremely hostile Lobby"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 17 Tu | Major | Coal: Le Cheminant minute to Armstrong ("Coal") [thoughts on threatened miners' strike] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 17 Tu | Major | Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howell) [draft statement on the coal industry and threatened miners' strike] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 18 We | Major | Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Coal") [report of tripartite meeting on pit closures with NCB and NUM] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 18 We | Major | Industrial Affairs: Le Cheminant briefing for MT ("Industrial Affairs") [update on coal dispute negotiations, water industry pay negotiations, developments in private sector steel industry] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 18 We | Major | Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howell-Prior-Brittan-Moore) [plans for the day's tripartite meeting on coal with NCB and NUM] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 19 Th | Major | Coal: Ingham minute to MT ("Lobby this morning - Coal") [Lobby seeks to establish "that the Government had made a massive U-turn under pressure of a strike"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 20 Fr | Major | Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Coal (E(81) 24: E(81) 21 is also relevant)") [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 20 Fr | Major | Coal: Lankester minute to MT ("Coal") [Moore and Maitland meet with Ezra; Ezra "said that he would have no option but to give [unions] the figures" on import costs or pit closures] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 20 Fr | Major | Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howell-Moore-Maitland-Monger) [state of play in coal negotiations; Howell argues that "the Government could no longer have much confidence in Sir Derek Ezra's handling of the negotiations"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 24 Tu | Major | Coal: Howell letter to Joseph ("Coal Imports: BSC") [miners' unions push for reduction in coal imports; Howell asks Joseph to pressure British Steel to reduce coal imports] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 25 We | Major | Coal: Howell minute to MT (report on further meeting of the Coal Industry Tripartite with NCB and NUM) ["no polemics from the union" but "danger of industrial action remains"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 25 We | Major | Coal: Joseph letter to Howell ("Coal Tripartite Discussions: Mineworkers' Redundancy and Transfer Terms") ["I am concerned that you should apparently have offered enhanced terms without any certainty of achieving desired closures"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 25 We | Major | Coal: Whitmore minute to MT ("Coal Dispute") [Maitland reports on outcome of coal tripartite with NCB and NUM; situation "remains tense"] [declassified 2011] |