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1981 Jul 22 - 1981 Nov 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/541
Nationalised industries (Coal mines) (Part 4)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 284
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81 Jul 22 Wed Coal: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Withstanding a Coal Strike") [MISC 57 report on possibility of withstanding a coal strike, winter 1981-2] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 24 Fri Coal: Duguid minute to Lankester ("Withstanding a Coal Strike") [comments on Whitelaw's MISC 57 report and others] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 30 Thu Coal: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Withstanding a Coal Strike") ["it seems clear that our capacity to withstand a strike this winter will be relatively limited"] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 30 Thu Coal: Younger minute to MT ("Withstanding a Coal Strike") [situation in Scotland] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 31 Fri Coal: Armstrong minute to MT ("Withstanding a Coal Strike") [comments on papers prepared for meeting] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 31 Fri Coal: Howell minute to MT ("Power Station Fuel Stocks and Endurance") [planning for miners' strike] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 31 Fri Coal: Howell minute to MT ("Withstanding a Coal Strike") [response to Whitelaw's MISC 57 report] [declassified 2011]
81 Jul 31 Fri Coal: Ibbs minute to MT ("NCB/NUM Problem") [CPRS "unable to find any radical new solution" to problem of NUM power over NCB] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 3 Mon Coal: Hoskyns minute to MT ("Power Station Fuel Stocks in 1982") [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 4 Tue Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howell-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Armstrong-Ibbs-Downey-Douglas Smith-Hoskyns-Duguid) ["Withstanding a Coal Strike"] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 4 Tue Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howell-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Armstrong-Ibbs-Downey-Douglas Smith-Hoskyns-Duguid) [additional record: CPRS report on the NUM/NCB problem] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 6 Thu Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Publicity About the Coal Industry") [increasing public awareness of problems with the coal industry] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 13 Thu Coal: Howell minute to MT ("Nationalised Industry Pay - Coal") ["NCB should reach the lowest possible agreement with the NUM without...pursuing a course of action which could bring with it a significant risk of a national miners' strike"] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 20 Thu Coal: Fowler minute to MT ("Movement of Coal") [arrangements for movement of coal to power stations by British Rail] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 24 Mon Coal: Hamish Gray minute to MT ("Power Station Coal Stocks") [progress report on movement of coal stocks from pitheads to power stations] [declassified 2011]
81 Aug 28 Fri Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Power Station Endurance") [preparation for possible miners' strike] [declassified 2011]
81 Sep 2 Wed Coal: Howell minute to MT ("Power Station Endurance") [preparation for possible miners' strike: ancillary materials and coal deliveries] [declassified 2011]
81 Sep 7 Mon Coal: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Power Station Endurance") [preparation for possible miners' strike: ancillary materials and coal deliveries] [declassified 2011]
81 Sep 9 Wed Coal: No.10 letter to Department of Energy ("Power Station Endurance") [preparation for possible miners' strike: ancillary materials and coal deliveries] [declassified 2011]
81 Sep 14 Mon Coal: Department of Trade letter to Department of Energy ("Proposed Reference of the National Coal Board to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission") [declassified 2011]