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Coal: No.10 briefing for MT (miners' strike at PMQs) [present situation; NCB manipulation of coal stock figures; Church Leaders' call for negotiations; position of Roy Hattersley; withdrawal of 'Hit List'; job losses] [declassified Dec 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1578 f372
Editorial comments:

This document appears to be a briefing note for the session of House of Commons PQs which occured on 22 November 1984. A record of those PQs can be found here.

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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 2pp
Themes: Labour Party & socialism, Parliament, Employment, Energy, Trade unions, Strikes & other union action, 1984-85 coal strike