1980 Jul 15 - 1981 Mar 4
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/539
Nationalised industries (Coal mines) (Part 2)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2011 Dec 30 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 189 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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Selections from this file
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| Date | Value |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 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] |
| 81 Feb 20 Fr | Major | Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Coal (E(81) 24: E(81) 21 is also relevant)") [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Mar 4 We | Major | 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 Jan 13 Tu | Major | Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("E: Presentation of Mineworkers' Pay Settlement") [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Jul 15 Tu | Major | Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Strategy for Coal (E(80) 67)") [declassified 2011] |
| 80 Sep 12 Fr | Major | Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Strategy for Coal (E(80) 96 and 99)") [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Mar 2 Mo | Major | 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 Feb 18 We | Major | Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Coal") [report of tripartite meeting on pit closures with NCB and NUM] [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] |
| 80 Oct 13 Mo | Major | Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Sales of Gas by the National Coal Board") [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 Feb 2 Mo | Major | Coal: Edwards minute to MT ("Coal") [Edwards "perturbed" that unions will receive details of pit closures before the Government] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jan 13 Tu | Major | Coal: Gow note to MT (Derek Ezra requests meeting with MT) [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 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 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 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] |
| 81 Mar 3 Tu | Major | 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 Feb 24 Tu | Major | 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] |