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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/734
Energy (Energy policy; nuclear power policy; fast reactor policy; Sizewell Inquiry; oil depletion policy; refinery and dispersal strategy; Select Committee report on nuclear power programme) (Part 6)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 341
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Date Value Title
80 Dec 19 Fr Major Energy: Edwards letter to Howell (Coal Liquefaction project) [“pilot project for an area suffering severely from steel closures”] [declassified 2012]
81 Jan 13 Tu Major Energy: No.10 record of conversaton (MT, Howell: Sizewell PWR Inquiry) [MT concerned about “far too complacent” delays] [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 6 Fr Major Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“UK oil policy: refinery and disposal strategy”) [need for review of North Sea oil pricing policy] [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 18 We Major Energy: Howell letter to Carrington (“International response to a tight oil market”) [MT: [international oil fund] “a ridiculous idea”] [declassified 2012]
81 May 21 Th Major Energy: Department of Trade PMQ briefing to MT (“Monopolies and Mergers Commission report on the CEGB”) [declassified 2012]
81 Jun 3 We Major Energy: Howell letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (North Sea oil prices) [declassified 2012]
81 Jun 9 Tu Major Energy: Brittan letter to Howell (“Fast Reactor Expenditure 1981-1982”) [operating efficiency of the Atomic Energy Authority] [declassified 2012]
81 Jun 26 Fr Major Energy: Howell minute to MT (National Nuclear Coporation) [chairmanship and performance issues] [declassified 2012]
81 Jul 6 Mo Major Energy: Howell minute to MT (“Select Committee report on nuclear power”) [government committed to nuclear energy] [declassified 2012]
81 Jul 10 Fr Major Energy: Brittan minute to MT (“Fast Reactor collaboration”) [prospects of international collaboration] [declassified 2012]
81 Aug 4 Tu Major Energy: Cabinet Office record of conversation (PWR inquiry) [MT concerned about delay and its effect on nuclear development programme] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 10 Th Major Energy: Walters minute to Coles (“… the case for exporting gas”) [“Europeans… have turned to the Soviet Union for supplies”] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 13 We Major Energy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Heseltine “Sizewell ‘B’ PWR project”) [“[MT] feels that if we try to hasten this inquiry… future of the PWR programme may be prejudiced”] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 20 We Major Energy: No.10 minute to MT (“Sizewell Inquiry”) [government committed to nuclear power but not to Sizewell] [declassified 2012]
82 Jan 20 We Major Energy: Lawson minute to MT (“Oil depletion policy: production cuts”) [declassified 2012]