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1980 Feb 15 - 1980 Mar 12
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/310
Nationalised Industries (British Steel Corporation; industrial action by steel unions; pay negotiations; contingency planning) (Part 5)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2010 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 226
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80 Mar 7 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Biffen letter to Keith Joseph ("Remedial measures for areas affected by steel rundowns") [public expenditure considerations] [declassified Dec 2010]
80 Mar 4 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: Biffen minute to MT ("Nationalised industries' EFL for 1979-1980 and 1980-1981") [addressing steel & electricity industries' financial pressures] [declassified Dec 2010]
80 Feb 22 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("British Steel Corporation") ["taking on financial commitments which it may not be able to meet"] [declassified Dec 2010]
80 Mar 7 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Department of Employment record of conversation (current issues in the employment and social policy field) [Jim Prior, Lord Gowrie, European Commissioner] [declassified Dec 2010]
80 Feb 15 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Department of Industry internal minute to Keith Joseph PS ("BSC: pay negotiations") ["bungled"] [declassified Dec 2010]
80 Feb 25 Mo Major Nationalised Industries: Department of Industry internal minute to Keith Joseph PS ("BSC: the breakeven target") ["the breakeven target is... what the law, as imposed by the Labour Government, requires"] [declassified Dec 2010]
80 Mar 7 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Department of Industry internal minute to Keith Joseph PS ("Steel dispute: present position") ["contingency planning on arbitration and/or mediation"] [declassified Dec 2010]
80 Mar 12 We Major Nationalised Industries: Department of Industry minute to No.10 ("Steel pay negotiations") [progress report] [declassified Dec 2010]
80 Feb 18 Mo Major Nationalised Industries: Department of Industry record of conversation (Steel strike) [Adam Butler, Patrick Mayhew, Derek Norton, Len Murray] [declassified Dec 2010]
80 Mar 5 We Major Nationalised Industries: Department of Industry record of conversation (Steel strike) [Keith Joseph, President of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), CBI Deputy Director-General] [declassified Dec 2010]
80 Feb 19 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (Steel strike) [Interdepartmental Contingency Group report on latest developments] [declassified Dec 2010]
80 Mar 11 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (Steel strike) [Interdepartmental Contingency Group report on latest position] [declassified Dec 2010]
80 Mar 7 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (Steel strike) [Interdepartmental Contingency Group report on latest position] [declassified Dec 2010]
80 Mar 4 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (Steel strike) [Interdepartmental Contingency Group report on latest position] [declassified Dec 2010]
80 Feb 29 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (Steel strike) [Interdepartmental Contingency Group report on latest position] [declassified Dec 2010]
80 Feb 26 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (Steel strike) [Interdepartmental Contingency Group report on latest position] [declassified Dec 2010]
80 Feb 22 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (Steel strike) [Interdepartmental Contingency Group report on latest position] [declassified Dec 2010]
80 Feb 21 Th Major Nationalised Industries: MT letter to Barry Jones MP (EEC aid to the Shotton area) [steel plant closures] [declassified Dec 2010]
80 Feb 19 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: MT letter to Chairman of Hadfields Ltd (Steel strike: mass picketing) [MT pushing for change in law to address obstruction and intimidation] [declassified Dec 2010]
80 Mar 11 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: MT letter to D.R. Coleman MP (steel industry: strike action & closures) [BSC closure plans in West Glamorgan; employees petition] [declassified Dec 2010]