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Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Colliery Closures") ["the Coal Board is having to confront market reality... The pits have to be closed... the present issue is not the kind of problem for which the... [Independent Review Body] was established"] [released Dec 2016]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/3097 f46
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 4pp
Themes: Employment, Energy, Privatized & state industries, Trade, Trade unions, 1984-85 coal strike