1981 Mar 10 - 1981 Jul 20
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/540
Nationalised industries (Coal mines) (Part 3)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2011 Dec 30 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 199 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 81 Mar 10 Tu | Major | Coal: Armstrong minute to Maitland (contingency planning for future industrial action by coal miners) [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Mar 12 Th | Major | Coal: Howell minute to MT (report on coal industry tripartite meeting with NCB and NUM) [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Mar 27 Fr | Major | Coal: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Lessons of the NUM Strike Threat") ["This note may appear critical of David Howell; that is not its purpose"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Mar 31 Tu | Major | Coal: Howell minute to MT (meeting between NCB and unions: Ezra wants to give unions details of NCB's financial position) [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Apr 2 Th | Major | Coal: Duguid minute to Lankester ("Regionalising the NCB") [possible plan for breaking up industry and fragmenting mining unions] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Apr 3 Fr | Major | Coal: Armstrong minute to MT (report on plan to transfer coal from pitheads to power stations) [concerns about counter-contingency planning by "militants in the NUM"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Apr 13 Mo | Major | Coal: Prior minute to MT ("Coal Stocks at Power Stations") ["I am in no doubt that [transferring coal to power stations] would prove highly provocative"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Apr 13 Mo | Major | Coal: Wolfson minute to MT (proposal to build up coal stocks at power stations) ["I am all in favour...but it should not be done by Ministerial Committee"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Apr 14 Tu | Major | Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Whitelaw-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Pym-Joseph-Younger-Howell-Armstrong) ["Coal Stocks at Power Stations"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 12 Tu | Major | Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("NCB Finances (E(81) 57 and E(81) 58)") [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 12 Tu | Major | Coal: Hoskyns minute to MT ("NCB: E Discussion Tomorrow") [strengthening the Government's negotiating position with miners' unions: "It's just like the nuclear deterrent: we cannot afford to look like unilateral disarmers"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 12 Tu | Major | Coal: Ibbs minute to Lankester ("NCB Finances") ["The worst possible situation would be to take on the NUM and be seen to lose again"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 13 We | Major | Coal: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("NCB Finances") [argues for "a major PR campaign on the costs imposed on the taxpayer by the coal industry"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 14 Th | Major | Coal: Howell minute to MT (concerns about decisions reached by E Committee on NCB finances) ["The NUM would bitterly resent these decisions and...they could well lead to another confrontation"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 15 Fr | Major | Coal: Duguid minute to Lankester (breaking up the NCB) ["For practical purposes the NCB is in the hands of the NUM...[so] the NUM will rapidly be alerted to the need to head off any moves towards regionalisation"] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 18 Mo | Major | Coal: Ibbs minute to Lankester ("NCB Finances") [plan for "regaining some of the initiative" from the NUM] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 19 Tu | Major | Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howell-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Brittan-Armstrong-Ibbs) [NCB finances] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 20 We | Major | Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("E: NCB Finances") [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 22 Fr | Major | Coal: Hoskyns letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("NCB") [PR campaign on cost of NCB to taxpayer] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 May 29 Fr | Major | Coal: Duguid minute to Lankester ("NCB") [setting up a group to look at wider strategy concerning the NCB and NUM] [declassified 2011] |