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PDF 81 Mar 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong minute to Maitland (contingency planning for future industrial action by coal miners) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Mar 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Howell minute to MT (report on coal industry tripartite meeting with NCB and NUM) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Mar 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Lessons of the NUM Strike Threat") ["This note may appear critical of David Howell; that is not its purpose"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Mar 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Howell minute to MT (meeting between NCB and unions: Ezra wants to give unions details of NCB's financial position) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Duguid minute to Lankester ("Regionalising the NCB") [possible plan for breaking up industry and fragmenting mining unions] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong minute to MT (report on plan to transfer coal from pitheads to power stations) [concerns about counter-contingency planning by "militants in the NUM"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Prior minute to MT ("Coal Stocks at Power Stations") ["I am in no doubt that [transferring coal to power stations] would prove highly provocative"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Wolfson minute to MT (proposal to build up coal stocks at power stations) ["I am all in favour...but it should not be done by Ministerial Committee"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Pym-Joseph-Younger-Howell-Armstrong) ["Coal Stocks at Power Stations"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("NCB Finances (E(81) 57 and E(81) 58)") [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Hoskyns minute to MT ("NCB: E Discussion Tomorrow") [strengthening the Government's negotiating position with miners' unions: "It's just like the nuclear deterrent: we cannot afford to look like unilateral disarmers"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Ibbs minute to Lankester ("NCB Finances") ["The worst possible situation would be to take on the NUM and be seen to lose again"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("NCB Finances") [argues for "a major PR campaign on the costs imposed on the taxpayer by the coal industry"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Howell minute to MT (concerns about decisions reached by E Committee on NCB finances) ["The NUM would bitterly resent these decisions and...they could well lead to another confrontation"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Duguid minute to Lankester (breaking up the NCB) ["For practical purposes the NCB is in the hands of the NUM...[so] the NUM will rapidly be alerted to the need to head off any moves towards regionalisation"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Ibbs minute to Lankester ("NCB Finances") [plan for "regaining some of the initiative" from the NUM] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howell-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Armstrong-Ibbs) [NCB finances] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("E: NCB Finances") [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Hoskyns letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("NCB") [PR campaign on cost of NCB to taxpayer] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Duguid minute to Lankester ("NCB") [setting up a group to look at wider strategy concerning the NCB and NUM] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (movement of coal stocks to power stations) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Howell minute to MT ("NCB Finances") [proposed PR campaign to emphasise cost of NCB to taxpayer] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The NCB and the NUM") [response to Hoskyns' paper on the 'NCB/NUM Problem'] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Lankester minute to MT ("NCB") [study group on reducing the likelihood of a miners' strike] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Coal Stocks") [Hoskyns urges Government to continue to move coal stocks to power stations: "to falter now will actually increase the chances of strike action"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Howell minute to MT ("Movement of Coal Stocks to Power Stations") [MT: "1 1/2 million tons just isn't enough - I assumed that such an amount had already been moved since March. Why not?"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Howell minute to MT ("NCB Finances") [Howell informs NCB of decisions on NCB financing] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Ibbs minute to Lankester ("Movement of Coal to Power Stations") ["The extra stocks...would not enable the Government to live out a lengthy and bitter strike"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Movement of Coal to Power Stations") [argues for further build-up of stocks] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Pattison minute to MT ("Coal Statement") [Howell's statement to the House of Commons on NCB finances] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Younger minute to MT ("Movement Of Coal to Power Stations") [feedback from the South of Scotland Electricity Board] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Howell minute to MT ("Coal") [longer term plan for dealing with the coal industry] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter of conversation (MT-Howell-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Maitland-Ibbs-Wade-Gery-Hoskyns) ["Movement of Coal to Power Stations"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("The Coal Industry") [PR campaign about costs of coal industry to taxpayer] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Vereker minute to Lankester ("Coal") [Ingham and the CPRS on PR campaign about costs of coal industry to taxpayer] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Howell minute to MT ("Movement of Coal to Power Stations") [additional coal moving to power stations] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Howell minute to Prior ("NUM Conference 1981") [John Moore reports on mining union conference] [declassified 2011]
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