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86 Aug 14 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to John MacGregor ("Objectives for New Chairman of British Coal") [draft letters to Robert Haslam; various concerns raised by MacGregor in ensuing correspondence with Walker] [released July 2016]
86 Aug 26 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker minute to MT (Energy strategy) [overview; Policy Unit: "Walker has declined the invitation to involve colleagues in reviewing energy policy as a coherent whole"; power station programme] [released July 2016]
86 Sep 3 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, George Hunter) [impromptu conversation with Vice-President of the Union of Democratic Mineworkers: concern about effect of NUM industrial action on UDM pay negotiations] [released July 2016]
86 Sep 5 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker PS letter to No.10 ("British Coal: Press Conference") [pay awards; NUM members dispute over additional pension fund contributions to cover strike action; exceptions to reinstatement] [released July 2016]
86 Sep 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with Mr. Walker") [Government response to publication of Ian MacGregor's book 'The Enemy Within'; other books in pipeline; strained relations between Departments of Energy and Environment] [released July 2016]
86 Sep 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Peter Walker) ["The Enemy Within": Government response to publication of Ian MacGregor's book] [released July 2016]
86 Sep 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 note to MT ('The Enemy Within' by Ian MacGregor) [draft statement by Peter Walker in response to publication of book] [released July 2016]
86 Oct 2 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to Attorney General ("1986 Coal Industry Bill") [miners welfare trusts "we must act to resolve the problems... where existing trustees appointed on behalf of the workforce are no longer representative"] [released July 2016]
86 Oct 8 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Whitelaw letter to Peter Walker ("Coal Industry Bill") [concern that Bill will be hybrid] [released July 2016]
86 Oct 9 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to MacGregor ("Coal Industry Bill") [Mineworkers' Pension Scheme: amendment to rules on contributions & linkage to "changes proposed to provide appropriate representation of the UDM"] [released July 2016]
86 Oct 24 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Wage Bargaining for Mineworkers") ["Bob Haslam makes the case for local wage bargaining... we must not lightly dismiss the expressed preference of the UDM for national membership bargaining... On the UDM rests the security of electricity supplies... leading ultimately to privatisation"; proposed solution] [released July 2016]
86 Oct 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker minute to MT ("UDM") ["Local pay negotiation is the complete opposite of what the UDM want"] [released July 2016]
86 Nov 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Union of Democratic Mineworkers") [reconciling UDM's apparently conflicting needs for influence at both national and local levels] [released July 2016]
86 Nov 4 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Peter Walker, Kenneth Clarke, David Hunt, Robert Haslam, John Wybrew) [developmental support for the UDM] [released July 2016]
86 Nov 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: MacGregor letter to Peter Walker ("Coal Industy Bill") [British Coal: deficit grant & social grant] [released July 2016]
86 Nov 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to MacGregor (British Coal: UDM and NUM pay settlements) [details & conditions] [released July 2016]
86 Nov 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker minute to MT ("Coal Stocks at CEGB Power Stations") [status report; forecast; confirmation that target set in December 1985 has been met] [released July 2016]
86 Nov 27 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Rifkind minute to MT ("Coal Stocks at Power Stations") [assurance that oil & nuclear generation capacity will enable Scotland to endure virtually indefinitely without coal deliveries] [released July 2016]
87 Jan 22 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to MacGregor ("Financial Support to the Coal Industry") [British Coal proposals to reduce costs through redundancies; public expenditure costs] [released July 2016]
87 Mar 6 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Energy Committee Report on the Coal Industry") [options for reforming coal industry and restoring profitability; development of a clear plan in anticipation of third Conservative term in Government] [released July 2016]
87 Mar 24 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to David Norgrove ("British Coal - Margam Project") ["stranglehold on coal mining productivity of work practices... Scargill has chosen to defend his leadership of the NUM on this crucial issue"] [released July 2016]
87 Mar 25 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to John MacGregor (British Coal: rate of grant support towards restructuring costs) [effect of redundancies] [released July 2016]
87 Apr 3 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker minute to MT ("Coal Industry") [statistics: "over the last 3 years... the number of men on the colliery books has gone down by more than 40% [while] production has gone down only 3%"] [released July 2016]
87 Apr 23 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: MacGregor letter to David Hunt ("Coal Industry Pay") [British Coal negotiations with UDM] [released July 2016]
87 Jul 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Discussion Note for Meeting with Secretary of State for Energy") [future of the Electricity Supply Industry & its relation to coal production] [released July 2016]
87 Jul 9 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute to MT ("Coal Stocks") [MT agrees to setting new target for endurance] [released July 2016]
87 Jul 14 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Cecil Parkinson ("Privatise Coal") ["our present strategy to secure lower coal prices is primarily directed at British Coal... But I am doubtful if this alone will deliver a sufficiently strongly based UK industry that can compete with imported coal"; proposals] [released July 2016]
87 Jul 23 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("The Implications of Electricity Privatisation for Coal") ["We cannot deliver the benefits of electricity privatisation... without liberalising the generation of electricity and introducing vigorous competition... this cannot be done without scrapping the Joint Understanding between British Coal and the CEGB"] [released July 2016]
87 Jul 24 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT ("British Coal") ["You asked about the history of discussion on the future of coal since the coal strike": summary; current options; referral of BC to MMC] [released July 2016]
87 Aug 4 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Cecil Parkinson minute to MT ("British Coal: Industrial Relations Situation") [NUM ballot for industrial action over new BC Code of Conduct; BC/Government counter-tactics; threat of industrial action in Yorkshire] [released July 2016]
87 Aug 25 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Cecil Parkinson PS letter to No.10 (British Coal: Industrial Relations Situation) [results of NUM ballot; ACAS mediation; TUC; anticipated form of industrial action; Yorkshire industrial action; public line to take; coal stocks] [released July 2016]
87 Sep 9 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Cecil Parkinson PS letter to No.10 ("Power Station Endurance") [British Coal negotiations with unions on new Code of Conduct; outlook in event of industrial action] [released July 2016]
87 Sep 10 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Cecil Parkinson) ["Power Station Endurance": threat of NUM industrial action; Scargill; UDM] [released July 2016]
87 Sep 11 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Cecil Parkinson minute to MT ("British Coal Industrial Relations: Position of NACODS") [latest position] [released July 2016]
87 Sep 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Cecil Parkinson PS letter to No.10 ("BC/NUM Industrial Relations") ["latest assessment of the negotiations"] [released July 2016]
87 Sep 16 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Robert Haslam") [British Coal/NUM negotiations; UDM concerns; winter industrial action] [released July 2016]
87 Sep 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Cecil Parkinson, Robert Haslam) [British Coal/NUM negotiations; UDM concerns; electricity industry endurance during industrial action; redundancy payments] [released July 2016]
87 Sep 18 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute to MT ("David Hart") [list of UDM concerns] [released July 2016]
87 Sep 30 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: John Major letter to Cecil Parkinson ("Revised Redundancy Terms for Mineworkers") [restructuring grant; retrospection; future of the scheme; strategic review of British Coal's policy approach] [released July 2016]
87 Oct 27 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Nationalised Industries: Cecil Parkinson minute to MT (White Paper on the Repair and Compensation System for Coal Mining Subsidence Damage) [Government response to Subsidence Compensation Review Committee (Waddilove report)] [released July 2016]

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