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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 Sep 30 We Major Coal: Lawson letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Miners Pay") [report on Lawson's meetings with Derek Ezra and Joe Gormley] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 1 Th Major Coal: Vereker minute to Scholar ("Miners' Pay") [presentation of mineworkers' pay settlement] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 8 Th Major Coal: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Lawson ("Miners' Pay") [negotiation and presentation of mineworkers' pay settlement] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 8 Th Major Coal: Lawson letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Minerworkers' Pay Negotiations") [report of NCB/NUM meeting] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 12 Mo Major Coal: No.10 letter to Department of Energy ("Miners' Pay") [MT's views on presentation of miners' pay settlement] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 15 Th Major Coal: Moore letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Mineworkers' Pay Negotiations") [report on progress of NUM/NCB pay negotiations] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 16 Fr Major Coal: Vereker minute to Scholar ("Miners' Pay") [New Earnings Survey figures to show that miners' pay settlement last year less generous than originally appeared; could cause difficulties for ongoing miners' pay negotiations] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 22 Th Major Coal: Hoskyns minute to MT ("NUM") [report suggests that there is not "a well-planned, subversive strategy on the part of the NUM's present or likely future leadership"] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 22 Th Major Coal: Lawson letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Miners' Pay") [presentation of miners' pay offer] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 23 Fr Major Coal: Vereker minute to Scholar ("Presentation of Miners' Pay Offer") [concerns about Lawson's strategy] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 27 Tu Major Coal: Vereker minute to Scholar ("Miners' Pay Negotiations") [report on miners' pay negotiations] [declassified 2011]
81 Oct 29 Th Major Coal: Vereker minute to Scholar ("Closure of the Coegnant Colliery") [postponing proposed closure would make NUM feel that Government and NCB "are even more frightened of their industrial power than we really are"] [declassified 2011]
81 Nov 13 Fr Major Coal: Lawson letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Mineworkers' Pay Negotiations") [account of NCB's pay offer to NUM, and NUM rejection of it] [declassified 2011]
81 Nov 18 We Major Coal: Vereker minute to Duguid ("MISC 57") [report on MISC 57 meeting regarding planning for possible miners' strike: disagreements over power station endurance] [declassified 2011]
81 Nov 20 Fr Major Coal: Vereker minute to Scholar ("Miners' Pay Negotiations: Announcement of EFLs") [fear that NUM will use announcement of EFL's to claim that Government is "tying the hands of the NCB"] [declassified 2011]
81 Nov 25 We Major Coal: Lawson letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("NUM Wage Negotiations") [report on latest session of negotiations] [declassified 2011]
81 Nov 30 Mo Major Coal: No.10 letter to HMT ("NUM Wage Negotiations") [MT suggests "being more realistic" about pay offer to miners in negotiations, but holding back details of NCB EFL where possible] [declassified 2011]