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 Jun 1 Mo | Major | Coal: Howell minute to MT ("NCB Finances") [proposed PR campaign to emphasise cost of NCB to taxpayer] [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 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 Mar 12 Th | Major | Coal: Howell minute to MT (report on coal industry tripartite meeting with NCB and NUM) [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jul 14 Tu | Major | Coal: Howell minute to Prior ("NUM Conference 1981") [John Moore reports on mining union conference] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jun 12 Fr | Major | Coal: Ibbs minute to Lankester ("Movement of Coal to Power Stations") ["The extra stocks...would not enable the Government to live out a lengthy and bitter strike"] [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 18 Mo | Major | Coal: Ibbs minute to Lankester ("NCB Finances") [plan for "regaining some of the initiative" from the NUM] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jun 5 Fr | Major | Coal: Lankester minute to MT ("NCB") [study group on reducing the likelihood of a miners' strike] [declassified 2011] |
| 81 Jun 19 Fr | Major | Coal: No.10 letter of conversation (MT-Howell-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Maitland-Ibbs-Wade-Gery-Hoskyns) ["Movement of Coal to Power Stations"] [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 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 Jun 16 Tu | Major | Coal: Pattison minute to MT ("Coal Statement") [Howell's statement to the House of Commons on NCB finances] [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 Jun 26 Fr | Major | Coal: Vereker minute to Lankester ("Coal") [Ingham and the CPRS on PR campaign about costs of coal industry to taxpayer] [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 Jun 16 Tu | Major | Coal: Younger minute to MT ("Movement Of Coal to Power Stations") [feedback from the South of Scotland Electricity Board] [declassified 2011] |