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80 Jul 15 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Strategy for Coal (E(80) 67)") [declassified 2011]
80 Jul 15 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Coal Industry Finances") [comments on Howell's paper on strategy for the coal industry] [declassified 2011]
80 Jul 15 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Ibbs minute to Lankester ("Strategy for Coal - E(80)67") [Howell's coal strategy "a triumph of hope over experience"] [declassified 2011]
80 Sep 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Strategy for Coal (E(80) 96 and 99)") [declassified 2011]
80 Sep 30 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Business: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Young Contractors Group) [EC tendering processes, local authority highway work, private sector financing of infrastructure work, open cast mining] [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 13 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Sales of Gas by the National Coal Board") [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 14 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Howell minute to MT ("Miners' Pay") [details of National Coal Board's approach to pay negotiations with NUM] [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 17 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Miners' Pay") [Hoskyns finds Howell's approach to pay negotiations with NUM "almost unbelievable"] [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 21 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howell-Prior-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Maude-Moore) [Miners' pay] [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Howell letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (latest developments in coal pay negotiations) [Miners' pay] [declassified 2011]
80 Nov 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Howell letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (latest developments in coal pay negotiations) [Miners' pay] [declassified 2011]
80 Nov 14 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Howell letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (agreement between NCB and NUM Exective on miners' pay) ["a successful outcome is still wholly dependent on the ballot [of NUM members]"] [declassified 2011]
80 Nov 28 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Miners Pay") [Derek Ezra reports on possible outcome of NUM pay ballot: "very close-run thing" and result could go "either way"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("E: Presentation of Mineworkers' Pay Settlement") [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Gow note to MT (Derek Ezra requests meeting with MT) [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Ibbs minute to Lankester ("Presentation of Mineworkers' Pay Settlement") ["There is a great deal of confusion over the effective value of the settlement"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Vereker minute to MT ("E, 14 January: Presentation of the Miners' Settlement") [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 27 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (briefing for MT's meeting with Derek Ezra) [coal strategy, pit closures] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 27 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Howell minute to MT (NCB plans for the coal industry, 1985/6) ["substantial" pit closures necessary] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 28 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ezra-Howell-King) [NCB views on the coal industry; MT agrees that "no alternative but to speed up the closure of the uneconomic pits"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Edwards minute to MT ("Coal") [Edwards "perturbed" that unions will receive details of pit closures before the Government] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 11 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Howell minute to MT ("Coal Industry Review") ["very difficult" meeting between NCB and NUM regarding pit closures] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Howell minute to MT ("Coal Industry Review") [NUM decides "to recommend industrial action to a ballot of members if the NCB does not withdraw its 'plans for closures'"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Ingham minute to MT ("Miners") [thoughts on threat of strike by coal miners: "I am frankly concerned at the apparently relaxed approach of the Government to the threat"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 16 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howell-Prior-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Pym-Brittan-Moore) [threat of miners' strike: situation "turning sour very quickly"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Text of Howell statement to the House of Commons ("The Coal Industry") [announces negotiations between Government, NCB and NUM in attempt to avoid strike over pit closures] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Ingham minute to MT (report on Lobby briefing: threatened miners' strike) ["I faced an extremely hostile Lobby"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Le Cheminant minute to Armstrong ("Coal") [thoughts on threatened miners' strike] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 17 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howell) [draft statement on the coal industry and threatened miners' strike] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 18 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Coal") [report of tripartite meeting on pit closures with NCB and NUM] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 18 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Industrial Affairs: Le Cheminant briefing for MT ("Industrial Affairs") [update on coal dispute negotiations, water industry pay negotiations, developments in private sector steel industry] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 18 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howell-Prior-Brittan-Moore) [plans for the day's tripartite meeting on coal with NCB and NUM] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 19 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Ingham minute to MT ("Lobby this morning - Coal") [Lobby seeks to establish "that the Government had made a massive U-turn under pressure of a strike"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 20 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Coal (E(81) 24: E(81) 21 is also relevant)") [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 20 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Lankester minute to MT ("Coal") [Moore and Maitland meet with Ezra; Ezra "said that he would have no option but to give [unions] the figures" on import costs or pit closures] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 20 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howell-Moore-Maitland-Monger) [state of play in coal negotiations; Howell argues that "the Government could no longer have much confidence in Sir Derek Ezra's handling of the negotiations"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 24 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Howell letter to Joseph ("Coal Imports: BSC") [miners' unions push for reduction in coal imports; Howell asks Joseph to pressure British Steel to reduce coal imports] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 25 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Howell minute to MT (report on further meeting of the Coal Industry Tripartite with NCB and NUM) ["no polemics from the union" but "danger of industrial action remains"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 25 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Joseph letter to Howell ("Coal Tripartite Discussions: Mineworkers' Redundancy and Transfer Terms") ["I am concerned that you should apparently have offered enhanced terms without any certainty of achieving desired closures"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 25 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Whitmore minute to MT ("Coal Dispute") [Maitland reports on outcome of coal tripartite with NCB and NUM; situation "remains tense"] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Coal") [NCB to breach External Financing Limits; Howe to "contest" some details of NCB's financing request] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 2 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Joseph letter to Howell ("Coal Imports: BSC") [Joseph opposes approaching British Steel to request that they reduce coal imports] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 3 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Howell letter to Joseph ("Coal Imports: BSC") [Howell pushes for British Steel to reduce coal imports: "The fact is that the Government is now committed to some action to reduce imports of coal"] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 4 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Coal (E(81) 25, 21 and 24)") [coal dispute and threatened strike action by NUM, deterioration in NCB's financial position] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 4 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Coal: Ibbs minute to Lankester ("Coal Tripartite Discussions") [outlines "damage limitation" exercise for dealing with coal dispute] [declassified 2011]

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