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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
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83 Nov 1 Tu Major Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Heseltine-Tebbit-Younger-King-Armstrong-Gregson) ["Endurance in the Event of a Miners' Strike"] [declassified 2014]
83 Dec 1 Th Major Coal: Turnbull note to MT (overtime ban 'unlikely' to have 'significant' effect on power station endurance) [declassified 2014]
84 Jan 9 Mo Major Coal: Department of Energy press release ("Government Go Ahead for £400 Million Asfordby Mine: Mr Peter Walker") [declassified 2014]
84 Jan 12 Th Major Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker) ["NCB Manpower", plans for closing uneconomic pits] [declassified 2014]
84 Jan 16 Mo Major Coal: Kerr note to Turnbull ("Coal Prices") [MT 'accepts that it would not be right to tackle the problem of NCB's loss-making capacity by enforcing a higher coal price on the electricity industry'] [declassified 2014]
84 Jan 18 We Major Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Coal") [Redundant Mineworkers Payments Scheme] [declassified 2014]
84 Jan 18 We Major Coal: Pascall minute to Turnbull ("NCB") [Redundant Mineworkers Payments Scheme] [declassified 2014]
84 Jan 19 Th Key Coal: No.10 record of conversation ("Coal Policy") [pit closure programme; enhanced Redundant Mineworkers Payments Scheme] [declassified 2014]
84 Jan 23 Mo Major Coal: No.10 letter to Department of Trade and Industry ("Coal-firing Scheme") [MT wants review of the coal-firing scheme] [declassified 2014]
84 Feb 20 Mo Major Coal: No.10 letter to Department of Energy ("Coal Firing Scheme") [MT wants review of the coal-firing scheme] [minutes from Turnbull and Walker to MT also in file] [declassified 2014]
84 Feb 22 We Major Coal: Turnbull note to MT (MacGregor knocked unconscious while visiting Ellington Colliery) [declassified 2014]
84 Feb 23 Th Major Coal: MT letter to MacGregor (MacGregor knocked unconscious while visiting Ellington Colliery) ["You are under no illusions that your task as Chairman of the Coal Board is a tough one, but I am sure that you will not be intimidated"] [declassified 2014]
84 Feb 27 Mo Major Coal: MacGregor letter to MT (MacGregor knocked unconscious while visiting Ellington Colliery) ["We shall certainly not bow to such tactics"] [declassified 2014]
84 Mar 7 We Major Coal: Pascall minute to Turnbull ("Coal") ["The temperature is rising in the coalfields...there is a strong possibility that the Scottish and Yorkshire miners could be on strike by the weekend"] [declassified 2014]
84 Mar 9 Fr Major Coal: Turbull minute to MT ("Miners' Industrial Action") [Department of Energy situation report on strike, and other matters] [declassified 2014]
84 Mar 12 Mo Major Coal: Armstrong minute to MT ("Proposed Ministerial Group on Coal") [Armstrong proposes setting up group to deal with strike] [declassified 2014]
84 Mar 13 Tu Major Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Coal") [brief for MT-Walker-MacGregor meeting] [declassified 2014]
84 Mar 14 We Key Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-MacGregor) ["Coalmining Dispute"] [declassified 2014]
84 Mar 14 We Key Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Brittan-Walker-Jenkin-Fowler-King-Havers-Moore-Gummer-Gregson) ["Coalmining Dispute"] [declassified 2014]
84 Mar 14 We Major Coal: Turnbull minute to MT ("Coal Strike: Picketing") [Brittan statement to Chief Constables: "It is the duty of the Police to prevent...intimidation so that the law is upheld"] [declassified 2014]