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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Showing items 41 - 60 of 75
| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 83 Jan 17 Mo | Major | Coal: Vereker minute to Mount (“Pit Closures”) [“Ministers will be invited to take a tactical decision”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jan 18 Tu | Major | Coal: Lawson minute to MT (“Power Station Endurance”) [accelerated rate of deliveries] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jan 21 Fr | Major | Coal: Moore letter to Brittan (“Foundry Coke Prices”) [aid to NCB] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jan 21 Fr | Major | Coal: Moore letter to Howe (“NCB Pit Closures”) [developments at Snowdown and in South Wales] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jan 21 Fr | Major | Coal: Lawson minute to MT (“NCB Pit Closures”) [“reluctance on the part of the miners themselves to strike”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jan 23 Su | Major | Coal: Gregson minute to MT (“NCB Pit Closures”) [“the need for substantial pit closures is not in dispute”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jan 25 Tu | Major | Coal: Vereker minute to Scholar (“Pit Closures”) [“The scale of closures needed for the NCB to operate commercially, without cross-subsidy, would be truly colossal”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jan 27 Th | Major | Coal: No.10 record of conversation (“Pit Closures”) [“Many of the pits most vulnerable to closure in 1983/84 would be in Scotland and Wales”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Feb 14 Mo | Major | Coal: Brittan letter to Lawson (“CEGB Coal Imports”) [“there is the strongest case against such artificial distortions to the market”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Feb 17 Th | Major | Coal: Lawson letter to Brittan (“NCB Pit Closures”) [NCB “considering the potential for achieving further acceleration in the rate of closures”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Feb 17 Th | Major | Coal: Vereker minute to Scholar (“Proposed Improvement in Redundancy Terms for Miners”) [pit closures the only option] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Feb 18 Fr | Major | Coal: Moore letter to Howe (“NCB Pit Closures”) [NUM ballot likely] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Feb 22 Tu | Major | Coal: Vereker minute to Mount (“MISC 57”) [“continues its work on long-term endurance in the event of a miners’ strike”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Feb 23 We | Major | Coal: Lawson letter to Brittan (coal imports) [“extremely generous” but conditionally agrees] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Feb 24 Th | Major | Coal: Brittan letter to Lawson (“Proposed Improvements in Redundancy Terms for Mineworkers”) [“extremely generous”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Feb 24 Th | Major | Coal: Tebbit letter to Lawson (“Proposed Improvements in Redundancy Terms for Mineworkers”) [“any announcement will provoke the usual outcry”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Feb 25 Fr | Major | Coal: Lawson PS minute to Howe PS (“NCB: South Wales Strike”) [“The Board’s initial assessment is that Arthur Scargill is unlikely to favour a national strike on this closure”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Mar 1 Tu | Major | Coal: Jenkin letter to Lawson (“Proposed Improvements in Redundancy Terms for Mineworkers”) [“we must have very sound grounds on which to defend the proposed improvement”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Mar 1 Tu | Major | Coal: Lawson minute to MT (“South Wales Mineworkers’ Strike”) [“In most cases, the Area NUM leadership are recommending a vote for a strike”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Mar 2 We | Major | Coal: Rickett letter to Lawson PS (“South Wales Miners’ Strike”) [briefing for Question Time] [declassified 2013] |