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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| Date | Value |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 81 Feb 11 We | Major | Coal: Howell minute to MT ("Coal Industry Review") ["very difficult" meeting between NCB and NUM regarding pit closures] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 13 Fr | Major | Coal: Howell minute to MT ("Coal Industry Review") [NUM decides "to recommend industrial action to a ballot of members if the NCB does not withdraw its 'plans for closures'"] [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] |
| 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 Feb 25 We | Major | Coal: Howell minute to MT (report on further meeting of the Coal Industry Tripartite with NCB and NUM) ["no polemics from the union" but "danger of industrial action remains"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Mar 4 We | Major | Coal: Ibbs minute to Lankester ("Coal Tripartite Discussions") [outlines "damage limitation" exercise for dealing with coal dispute] [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] |
| 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] |
| 81 Feb 19 Th | Major | Coal: Ingham minute to MT ("Lobby this morning - Coal") [Lobby seeks to establish "that the Government had made a massive U-turn under pressure of a strike"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 13 Fr | Major | Coal: Ingham minute to MT ("Miners") [thoughts on threat of strike by coal miners: "I am frankly concerned at the apparently relaxed approach of the Government to the threat"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 17 Tu | Major | Coal: Ingham minute to MT (report on Lobby briefing: threatened miners' strike) ["I faced an extremely hostile Lobby"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Mar 2 Mo | Major | Coal: Joseph letter to Howell ("Coal Imports: BSC") [Joseph opposes approaching British Steel to request that they reduce coal imports] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 25 We | Major | Coal: Joseph letter to Howell ("Coal Tripartite Discussions: Mineworkers' Redundancy and Transfer Terms") ["I am concerned that you should apparently have offered enhanced terms without any certainty of achieving desired closures"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 20 Fr | Major | Coal: Lankester minute to MT ("Coal") [Moore and Maitland meet with Ezra; Ezra "said that he would have no option but to give [unions] the figures" on import costs or pit closures] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 17 Tu | Major | Coal: Le Cheminant minute to Armstrong ("Coal") [thoughts on threatened miners' strike] [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] |
| 81 Feb 17 Tu | Major | Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howell) [draft statement on the coal industry and threatened miners' strike] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 20 Fr | Major | Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howell-Moore-Maitland-Monger) [state of play in coal negotiations; Howell argues that "the Government could no longer have much confidence in Sir Derek Ezra's handling of the negotiations"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Feb 18 We | Major | Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howell-Prior-Brittan-Moore) [plans for the day's tripartite meeting on coal with NCB and NUM] [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] |