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1980 Jul 15 - 1981 Mar 4
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/539
Nationalised industries (Coal mines) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 189
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80 Jul 15 Tu Major Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Strategy for Coal (E(80) 67)") [declassified 2011]
80 Jul 15 Tu Major 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 Major 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 Major Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Strategy for Coal (E(80) 96 and 99)") [declassified 2011]
80 Sep 30 Tu Major 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 Major Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Sales of Gas by the National Coal Board") [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 14 Tu Major 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 Major 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 Major Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howell-Prior-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Maude-Moore) [Miners' pay] [declassified 2011]
80 Oct 31 Fr Major Coal: Howell letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (latest developments in coal pay negotiations) [Miners' pay] [declassified 2011]
80 Nov 7 Fr Major Coal: Howell letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (latest developments in coal pay negotiations) [Miners' pay] [declassified 2011]
80 Nov 14 Fr Major 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 Major 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 Major Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("E: Presentation of Mineworkers' Pay Settlement") [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 13 Tu Major Coal: Gow note to MT (Derek Ezra requests meeting with MT) [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 13 Tu Major 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 Major Coal: Vereker minute to MT ("E, 14 January: Presentation of the Miners' Settlement") [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 27 Tu Major 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 Major Coal: Howell minute to MT (NCB plans for the coal industry, 1985/6) ["substantial" pit closures necessary] [declassified 2011]
81 Jan 28 We Major 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]