1983 May 4 - 1984 Mar 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1329
Nationalised industries (Coal mines) (Part 8)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2014 Jan 3 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 301 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 83 Jun 23 Th | Major | Coal: Walker minute to MT ("Power Station and Industrial Endurance") [MISC 57 report on increasing power station endurance in event of miners' strike] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Jun 28 Tu | Major | Coal: Parkinson minute to MT ("Power Station and Industrial Endurance") [comments on MISC 57 report on increasing power station endurance in event of miners' strike] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Jun 29 We | Major | Coal: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Power Station and Industrial Endurance") [comments on MISC 57 report on increasing power station endurance in event of miners' strike] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Jul 1 Fr | Major | Coal: No.10 letter to HMT ("Power Station Endurance in the Medium Term") [MT to call meeting on endurance before 19 September] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Jul 4 Mo | Major | Coal: No.10 minute to Department of Energy ("Power Station Industrial Endurance") [MT agrees to all proposals in Walker's minute] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Jul 21 Th | Major | Coal: Armstrong minute to MT ("Power Station Endurance in the Medium Term") [MISC 57 report on extending power station endurance in the medium and longer term] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Jul 25 Mo | Major | Coal: No.10 minute to Armstrong ("Power Station Endurance in the Medium Term") [MT comments on MISC 57 report; defers decisions on options in the report until Walker presents NCB Corporate Plan for discussion] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Jul 28 Th | Major | Coal: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Power Station Endurance in the Medium Term") [comments on MISC 57 report: "we should concentrate on those options like further stockpiling of coal"] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Aug 1 Mo | Major | Coal: Rees letter to Walker ("NCB: Investment and Financing Review 1983") [considerations for financing review: pit closures, miners' pay, prices, investment] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Aug 18 Th | Major | Coal: Rickett note to Scholar (report of discussions with Department of Energy on coal strategy) [Walker 'unwilling to circulate a paper' for 15 September meeting: not prepared to commit himself prior to talks with MacGregor] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Sep 9 Fr | Major | Coal: Gregson minute to Scholar ("Coal") [argues for postponement of 15 September meeting on power station endurance] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Sep 14 We | Major | Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Miners' Pay") [brief for strategy meeting on miners' pay] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Sep 14 We | Major | Coal: Owen minute to MT ("Coal Industry Pay 1983") [comments on possible 5% pay settlement] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Sep 15 Th | Key | Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Walker-Tebbit-Armstrong-Gregson-Scholar) [Ian MacGregor's strategy for coal, pit closures, redundancies, miners' pay] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Sep 21 We | Major | Coal: Gregson minute to Scholar ("Coal") [decisions on NCB's future financing needs, power station endurance, NCB strategy] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Oct 14 Fr | Major | Coal: Prime Minister's Briefing for PMQs ("Major Industrial Disputes") [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Oct 21 Fr | Major | Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Brief for the Prime Minister: NUM Special Delegate Conference: 21 October 1983") [NUM rejects NCB pay offer] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Oct 26 We | Major | Coal: Armstrong minute to MT ("Endurance in the Event of a Miners' Strike") [current situation and outstanding issues] [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Oct 28 Fr | Major | Coal: Turnbull minute to MT (upcoming meetings with Gregson and Armstrong on miners' pay and power station endurance) [declassified 2014] |
| 83 Oct 31 Mo | Key | Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Armstrong-Gregson) ["Enduring a coal strike"] [declassified 2014] |