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1982 Dec 1 - 1983 Jun 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1095
Nationalised industries (Prospects for the steel industry; plant closures; future of Ian MacGregor, chairman of British Steel Corporation (BSC)) (Part 12)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 368
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82 Dec 2 Th Major Nationalised industries: Jenkin minute to MT ("BSC future strategy") ["I attach a paper describing the current outlook for the BSC and the guidance I believe we should give them"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 3 Fr Major Nationalised industries: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("BSC future strategy") ["the most obvious candidate for closure is Ravenscraig... [but] We need to maintain our present capacity for the time being to secure a fair... slice of the total European market"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 3 Fr Major Nationalised industries: No.10 minute to MT (successor to Sir Peter Carey) [views on MT's preferred candidate] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 3 Fr Major Nationalised industries: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 ("Letters to the Prime Minister from Dr Jeremy Bray") [case against closure of Ravenscraig steelworks] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 3 Fr Major Nationalised industries: Jenkin minute to MT ("BSC future strategy") ["It is very clear that the case for deferring the closure of Ravenscraig is not commercial and financial but political... the decision should not be at the expense of Llanwern"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 3 Fr Major Nationalised industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("British Steel Corporation future strategy") [options for addressing ongoing losses, including closure of Ravenscraig] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 6 Mo Major Nationalised industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Jenkin, Younger, Edwards, Brittan, Cockfield, Tebbit) ["BSC future strategy"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 10 Fr Major Nationalised industries: Jenkin letter to Jopling (British Steel Corporation: announcement of job losses) [lines to take] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 10 Fr Major Nationalised industries: Jenkin PS briefing for MT (meeting with Ian MacGregor) ["our views on the suggestion that MacGregor might... combine the chairmanship of BSC with the chairmanship of the NCB"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 10 Fr Major Nationalised industries: Jenkin minute to MT ("BSC: future strategy") [cash requirement projections for next three years based on four alternative options for Ravenscraig & Port Talbot] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 13 Mo Major Nationalised industries: Younger minute to MT ("BSC: future strategy") [paper on estimated financial consequences of closing Ravenscraig steelworks] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 13 Mo Major Nationalised industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ian MacGregor) [Chairmanship of British Steel Corporation & National Coal Board; joint venture between BSC/Ravenscraig & US Steel; world recession] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 13 Mo Major Nationalised industries: Department of Industry briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with the Scottish TUC and others,14 December 1982") [review of British Steel Corporation's future strategy; Ravenscraig] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 13 Mo Major Nationalised industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("British Steel Corporation Future Strategy") [proposed new investment at Port Talbot; proposed Ravenscraig closure; tactics towards EC Commission; draft Parliamentary announcement] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 14 Tu Major Nationalised industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Jenkin, Younger, Edwards, Brittan, Tebbit, Cockfield, Hurd) ["BSC future strategy"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 14 Tu Major Nationalised industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Younger, Jenkin, Scottish TUC delegation, church and local government representatives) ["Ravenscraig"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 15 We Minor Nationalised industries: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 (British Steel Corporation: Plan for 1983/86) [timing of Parliamentary debate on steel] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 15 We Major Nationalised industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Industrial affairs") [British Steel Corporation - Jenkin statement to Parliament; NHS pay dispute; water industry pay negotiations] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 17 Fr Major Nationalised industries: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 ("BSC future strategy") [statement to Parliament] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 31 Mo Major Nationalised industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, Sir Alistair Frame) [Chairmanship of the British Steel Corporation] [declassified Aug 2013]