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1981 Mar 10 - 1981 Jul 20
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/540
Nationalised industries (Coal mines) (Part 3)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 199
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81 May 20 We Major Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("E: NCB Finances") [declassified 2011]
81 May 12 Tu Major Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT ("NCB Finances (E(81) 57 and E(81) 58)") [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 10 Tu Major Coal: Armstrong minute to Maitland (contingency planning for future industrial action by coal miners) [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 Jun 15 Mo Major Coal: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Movement of Coal to Power Stations") [argues for further build-up of stocks] [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 Jun 5 Fr Major Coal: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("The NCB and the NUM") [response to Hoskyns' paper on the 'NCB/NUM Problem'] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 24 We Major Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("The Coal Industry") [PR campaign about costs of coal industry to taxpayer] [declassified 2011]
81 May 29 Fr Major Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (movement of coal stocks to power stations) [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]
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 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 22 Fr Major Coal: Hoskyns letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("NCB") [PR campaign on cost of NCB to taxpayer] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 10 We Major Coal: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Coal Stocks") [Hoskyns urges Government to continue to move coal stocks to power stations: "to falter now will actually increase the chances of strike action"] [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 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 Jun 18 Th Major Coal: Howell minute to MT ("Coal") [longer term plan for dealing with the coal industry] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 10 We Major Coal: Howell minute to MT ("Movement of Coal Stocks to Power Stations") [MT: "1 1/2 million tons just isn't enough - I assumed that such an amount had already been moved since March. Why not?"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 3 Fr Major Coal: Howell minute to MT ("Movement of Coal to Power Stations") [additional coal moving to power stations] [declassified 2011]
81 Jun 12 Fr Major Coal: Howell minute to MT ("NCB Finances") [Howell informs NCB of decisions on NCB financing] [declassified 2011]