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1981 Feb 17 - 1981 Apr 6
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/549
Nationalised industries (Prospects for the steel industry; British Steel Corporation (BSC) corporate plan; overlap between BSC and private sector; rationalisation of the UK engineering steel making facilities) (Part 9)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 245
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81 Feb 18 We Major Steel: Department of Industry letter to No.10 ("Duport Limited") [improved offer from BSC to take over certain Duport businesses] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 18 We Major Steel: Department of Industry letter to No.10 ("Price Cutting Allegations Against BSC") [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 18 We Major Steel: MT letter to Chairman of Duport Ltd, E Sayers (Duport Ltd's financial difficulties) ["the problem is that this market is not large enough to employ profitably all the capacity available"] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 2 Mo Major Steel: MT letter to Chairman of Duport Ltd, E Sayers (Duport's Llanelli steelworks to close) ["Unfortunately there seems no alternative in current trading conditions to reducing capacity in both BSC and in the private sector"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 20 Fr Major Steel: Ibbs minute to MT ("Overlap Between BSC and the Private Sector") [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 13 Fr Major Steel: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Denzil Davies MP-Tebbit) [closure of Duport's Llanelli steelworks] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 30 Mo Major Steel: Hadfields' Joint Shop Stewards Committees letter to MT (Phoenix II and possible closure of Hadfields) ["We...are urgently requesting a meeting with you to set the record straight, and to prove our case for believing we should be allowed to survive"] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 27 Fr Major Steel: Department of Industry letter to No.10 ("Financial Times Article About BSC and Consett Engineering Ltd (GEL)") [allegation that BSC is hampering CEL's efforts to create new jobs in Consett] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 20 Fr Major Steel: Armstrong briefing for MT ("British Steel Corporation: Corporate Plan") [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 24 Tu Major Steel: MT letter to Duport Steel Works employees (Duport's Llanelli steelworks to close) ["Obviously I deeply regret the position in which the Llanelli workforce now find themselves"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 20 Fr Major Steel: Department of Industry letter to No.10 ("Duport's Llanelli Steel Works") [draft letter to workers at Duport Steel Works: MT amends] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 19 Th Major Steel: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Ibbs) ["BSC - Report of Enquiry Team into 1981/82 Cash Requirement"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 18 We Major Steel: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Joseph-Binning) ["Duport Limited"] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 2 Mo Major Steel: Denzil Davies MP letter to MT (list of firms that will be affected by closure of Duport steelworks in Llanelli) [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 26 Th Major Steel: Joseph minute to MT ("Phoenix II - Hadfields") [MT: Closure of Hadfields "will lead to great political trouble because the Hadfields men did not strike when BSC did and it is the Hadfields men who will be made redundant"] [declassified 2011]
81 Feb 18 We Major Steel: Joseph minute to MT ("Phoenix I") [BSC/GKN amalgamation] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 11 We Major Steel: Department of Industry letter to No.10 (briefing for MT's meeting with Denzil Davies MP to discuss closure of Duport's Llanelli steelworks) [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 6 Fr Major Steel: Chairman of Duport Ltd, E Sayers, letter to MT (Duport Ltd's financial difficulties) ["it is vital that the question of the Llanelli plant be re-examined"] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 19 Th Major Steel: Department of Industry letter to No.10 ("Duport") [BSC takeover of Duport assets] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 19 Th Major Steel: MT letter to BSC Chairman Ian MacGregor (proposed closure of Distington ingot mould foundry) ["I personally should welcome your own confirmation that you yourself have total confidence in the Corporation's assessment which led to the decision to close Distington"] [declassified 2011]