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PDF 87 Nov 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cecil Parkinson letter to John Major ("Coal Industry Pay") [implementation of second instalment of 1986-87 pay award for UDM members but not for NUM; NACODS pay claim] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Nov 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Rifkind letter to Cecil Parkinson ("Waddilove Report") [Parliamentary Answer] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 87 Dec 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("British Coal/CEGB Coal Purchase Understanding") ["The issue is not whether but when to liberalise coal supplies to the electricity industry"; MT wishes to discuss] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Jan 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to Cecil Parkinson (Margam New Mine) ["it would be totally disastrous if the reason for Margam not going ahead... is due to British Coal"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cecil Parkinson minute to MT ("NACODS Dispute") [latest position; proposed legislative changes & transfer of NACODS duties to UDM members] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cecil Parkinson letter to Peter Walker (British Coal Enterprise) ["recognise the success of many of the projects supported by BCE... [but] I must be certain of the effectiveness of the money already spent"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 May 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cecil Parkinson minute to MT ("Financing British Coal") [Parliamentary announcement on change in method of financing "in the light of BC's deficit in 1987/88"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT ("Coal Privatisation") [required legislative changes & case for introducing some or all in current Parliament] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Cecil Parkinson) ["Privatisation of the Coal Industry": required legislative changes & timeline; effect of redundancies on UDM pits; paper on "the true costs of coal"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute to MT ("Coal Privatisation") [Cecil Parkinson speech at Party Conference prompts Peter Walker to query when Cabinet decided to "press head"; lines to take in response] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Parkinson minute to MT (British Coal/CEGB coal purchase arrangements) [new short-term agreement; longer-term arrangements] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: John Major letter to Cecil Parkinson ("UDM Pay") ["I explicitly asked that we avoid a deal based on indexation"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Ridley minute to MT ("The Cost of Coal") [comments on Department of Energy paper] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Parkinson letter to John Major (British Coal's pay negotiations with NACODS and UDM) ["a very satisfactory [NACODS] outcome and will considerably strengthen the Corporation's case... [for] their similar offer to the UDM"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute to MT ("Bilateral with Mr. Parkinson: 23 February") [future of UDM; pit closures] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Feb 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Cecil Parkinson) [pit closures; level of coal demand from electricity companies post-privatisation; coal stocks; Chairmanship of British Coal; reliability of supplies from Selby coalfield; electricity privatisation: Bill; implementation; prices] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Parkinson letter to Wakeham (Coal Bill) [scheduling of the legislation; financial support for British Coal; provisions on subsidence; raising of statutory limits on private sector coalmining] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Parkinson PS letter to No.10 (Union of Democratic Mineworks) [request to meet with MT to discuss concerns about reduction in British Coal output & its effect on Nottinghamshire pits and the UDM] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute to MT ("Coal Liberalisation and the UDM") ["possibility of a more radical liberalisation" than that proposed by Parkinson] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Paul Gray ("Coal and UDM") ["a specific instance of the sort of private coal project which might be available with UDM support"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Sep 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Paul Gray ("Coal Liberalisation") [tonnage & manning proposals] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Sep 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Wakeham minute to MT ("Coal Industry Industrial Relations") ["significant" chance of winter industrial action owing to pit closure implications of electricity privatisation, to NUM & NACODS pay disputes, and to proposed legislative reform affecting NACODS pit deputies] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Oct 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Wakeham PS letter to No.10 (coal stocks) [CEGB response to MT query about possibility of increase] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Oct 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Wakeham letter to Lamont ("British Coal: Mineworkers' Pay") [proposed respective deals for UDM, NUM and NACODS] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Oct 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("British Coal") [need to ensure collective approval for policy proposals contained in Coal Bill] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Oct 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Privy Council Office record of conversation ("British Coal") [Howe, Wakeham, Renton, Spicer] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Nov 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Paul Gray ("Coal Bill - Licensing Provision") ["[Howe proposal] to frustrate the raising of statutory limits on licensed mining... would be a grave mistake"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Nov 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Paul Gray ("Coal Bill") [endorses Chris Patten proposal "requiring British Coal tp reserve a fraction of its current operating costs for future site reclamation"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Nov 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Wakeham minute to MT ("Coal Contracts") [details of British Coal/Generators 3-year interim agreement; implications for flotation of Elictricity Suppy Industry and for British Coal] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Nov 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Coal Contracts") [details of British Coal/Generators interim agreement; analysis of negotiations; future negotiations; "Endorse John Wakeham's package as being a good interim solution"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Nov 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Wakeham ("Coal Contracts") [need for British Coal to base investment plans on realistic assumptions; affect on BC of generators' future efforts to reduce emissions of sulphur oxide; controlling costs; further financial assistance to BC; transparent pricing of output from individual pits/coalfields] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Nov 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT ("Coal Contracts") [British Coal/electricity generators: proposed 3-year interim agreement & Treasury concerns; pit closures; British Coal finances; timing of announcement of the agreement] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Nov 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Major, Wakeham) ["Coal Contracts": British Coal/electricity generators - proposed 3-year interim agreement & Treasury concerns; pit closures; British Coal finances; timing of announcement of the agreement] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Nov 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Rifkind minute to MT ("Coal Contracts") [significance of British Coal/England & Wales Generators 3-year interim agreement for Scotland; case against closure of Longannet mine; coal prices] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jan 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Wakeham PS letter to No.10 ("Coal and Power Station Statistics") [review of reporting requirements in anticipation of privatisation] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute to MT ("Colliery Closures") [probable need for change in Independent Review Body procedures, despite MT's reluctance: meeting to discuss; appointment of new British Coal Chair; handling of pit closures] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute to MT ("Colliery Closures: Independent Review Body") [options for reviewing/agreeing need for closures] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT ("Colliery Closures") [summary of briefing notes & key issues] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 90 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Major, Wakeham, Walker, Ridley, Howard, George Guise, Richard Wilson) ["Colliery Closures: Independent Review Body": agreement that exisiting review procedure should ideally be maintained despite British Coal management's resistance; MT willing to discuss directly with Chair of BC] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Wakeham minute to MT ("Colliery Closures: Independent Review Body") [Chair of Britush Coal: proposed meeting with MT to discuss his successor and the approach to the next round of colliery closures] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr. Wakeham and Sir Robert Haslam") [an Honour for Haslam; successor as Chair of British Coal; colliery closure review procedures] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("British Coal - Haslam Meeting on Tuesday") [Board divided over approach to reviewing proposed colliery closures; successor to Haslam as Chair of BC] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Wakeham, Haslam) ["British Coal": agreement reached on approach to reviewing proposed colliery closures] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Wakeham PS letter to No.10 ("New Energy Technologies: Renewables and Coal") [MT requests copy of "fascinating" paper by Department of Energy's Chief Scientist] [released Dec 2016]
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