1982 Sep 9 - 1983 May 10
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1092
Nationalised industries (Coal mines) (Part 7)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2013 Aug 1 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 330 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 82 Nov 2 Tu | Major | Coal: Lawson minute to Howe (“NUM Wage Claim”) [“The Union have now accepted the wage offer and have called off the overtime ban”] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Nov 3 We | Major | Coal: Mount minute to MT (“Cabinet, 4 November: Industrial Relations: Pay”) [“risk that decisions are going to be taken which will set in concrete existing assumptions and expectations about pay”] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Nov 10 We | Major | Coal: Howe minute to MT (“NUM Wage Settlement”) [“the NUM did have some success in using the threat of strike action”] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Nov 18 Th | Major | Coal: Vereker minute to Mount (“Coal”) [latest ballot; closures; prospects for the Autumn] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Dec 3 Fr | Major | Coal: Gregson minute to Scholar (“Power Station Endurance”) [withstanding a coal strike] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Dec 3 Fr | Major | Coal: Vereker minute to Scholar (“Power Station Endurance”) [“we must always bear the sensitivity of the pit closures issue in mind”] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Dec 10 Fr | Major | Coal: Lawson minute to MT (“NCB Pit Closures”) [proposals and recent closures] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Dec 13 Mo | Major | Coal: Howe minute to MT (“Power Station Endurance”) [“we must do everything possible to minimise the cost to the Exchequer”] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Dec 14 Tu | Major | Coal: Lawson minute to MT (“Power Station Endurance”) [feasibility studies] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Dec 15 We | Major | Coal: Mount minute to MT (“NCB Chairman”) [MacGregor “seen as a hatchet man”] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Dec 16 Th | Major | Coal: Howe minute to MT (“NCB Pit Closures”) [“they can only improve the financial position of the industry if they reduce their excess capacity”] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Dec 17 Fr | Major | Coal: Moore letter to Brittan (“Foundry Coke Prices”) [assistance to NCB] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Dec 21 Tu | Major | Coal: Moore letter to Howe (“The South Wales NUM Strike Demand”) [“it is by no means certain that, if a strike were to start, it would ‘spread like wildfire’”] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Dec 22 We | Major | Coal: Gregson minute to Scholar (“Power Station Endurance”) [“There is no intervention which it would be useful for the Prime Minister to make”] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Dec 23 Th | Major | Coal: Brittan letter to Moore (“Foundry Coke Prices”) [“very reluctant to agree to an extension of the foundry grant for another year”] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Dec 23 Th | Major | Coal: Lamont letter to Brittan (“Foundry Coke Prices”) [“concerned about the size of the price increases that would be necessary”] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Dec 23 Th | Major | Coal: Scholar minute to Lawson PS (“Power Station Endurance”) [action to be taken] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Dec 23 Th | Major | Coal: Lawson letter to Howe (“Power Station Endurance”) [cost of accelerated delivery exercise] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Dec 24 Fr | Major | Coal: Vereker minute to Walters (“Pit Closures”) [NCB discussion document] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jan 11 Tu | Major | Coal: Vereker minute to Walters (“Pit Closures”) [NCB discussion document: “the present draft is hopeless”] [declassified 2013] |