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1985 Dec 2 - 1986 Jul 31
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1865
Nationalised Industries (Coal mines) (Part 19)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2015 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 341
Any docs withheld? 1

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86 May 13 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Coal and Electricity Prices") [NCB/ESI negotiations on interim reduction in coal prices to reflect fall in oil prices: latest position] [released Dec 2015]
86 May 16 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("1986 Coal Industry Bill") [summary of common ground between Treasury and Energy proposals for extension of deficit funding arrangements for British Coal] [released Dec 2015]
86 May 21 We Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Provisional Agreement Between the NCB and the CEGB on Coal Supply") [outline of proposed deal; context/E(A) committee proposals; recommends acceptance of NCB/CEGB deal] [released Dec 2015]
86 May 23 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Tebbit letter to Peter Walker ("Provisional Agreement Between the NCB and the CEGB on Coal Supply") [recommends acceptance of proposed deal; concerns about presentational issues] [released Dec 2015]
86 May 30 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Coal Industry Bill 1986") [need for clauses in Bill to protect UDM from "monolithic NUM", with a view to UDM's vital role in transition to a private-sector-oriented coal industry] [released Dec 2015]
86 May 30 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker minute to MT ("Coal Industry Bill 1986") [MT agrees "very strongly" with Walker's case for need for clauses in Bill to protect UDM from NUM's veto powers] [released Dec 2015]
86 Jun 3 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to David Norgrove ("NCB/CEGB Agreement") [addresses Channon's concerns that deal implies electricity prices for 1988 will be fixed] [released Dec 2015]
86 Jun 9 Mo Major Nationalised Industries: John MacGregor letter to Peter Walker ("NCB (Enterprise) Ltd") ["we are establishing disciplines throughout the public sector to assess the effectiveness of employment creating measures... important to esablish that... [NCB(E)'s] lending criteria are... operated in a cost-effective way"] [released Dec 2015]
86 Jun 9 Mo Major Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to John MacGregor ("Coal Industry Bill") [social grants; redundant mineworkers payments scheme; povisions to protect UCM from NUM veto powers] [released Dec 2015]
86 Jun 13 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker minute to MT ("NCB/SSEB Negotiations") ["SSEB are currently demanding as the price for resuming coalburn a deal which would be almost twice as expensive... as the agreement reached with the CEGB"] [released Dec 2015]
86 Jul 7 Mo Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Coal Industry Bill 1986") [Mineworkers' Pension Scheme] [released Dec 2015]
86 Jul 8 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to David Norgrove ("Coal Stocks at Power Stations") [evaluation of current stocks, and strategy for coming winter] [released Dec 2015]
86 Jul 31 Th Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 note to MT (review of energy policy) [MT gives qualified agreement to proceeding with No.10 Policy Unit proposals] [released Dec 2015]