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PREM19/806
Industrial policy (Industrial action in the ports; future of Port of London Authority (PLA) and Mersey Docks and Harbour Company (MDHC)) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Secret
Page count: 124

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Date Value Title
79 Dec 29 Sa Major Industrial Policy: Fowler letter to Prior (grant aid to the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company) [use of grant aid to fund severance costs] [declassified 2012]
80 Mar 31 Mo Major Industrial Policy: Biffen letter to Fowler (“Mersey Docks and Harbour Company (MDHC)”) [grant aid] [declassified 2012]
80 Sep 11 Th Major Industrial Policy: Prior PS letter to No.10 (“Port of Liverpool”) [cost of averting National Docks strike] [declassified 2012]
80 Sep 15 Mo Major Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Prior, Fowler) [Liverpool Port National Docks strike] [declassified 2012]
80 Sep 16 Tu Major Industrial Policy: TGWU General Secretary letter to MT (industrial dispute in the Port of Liverpool) [strike called off] [declassified 2012]
80 Sep 16 Tu Major Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Prior, Fowler, Biffen, Joseph, Adam Butler, Armstrong) [“Liverpool Port”] [declassified 2012]
80 Sep 16 Tu Major Industrial Policy: Biffen minute to MT (“Port of Liverpool”) [cost of averting National Docks strike] [declassified 2012]
80 Sep 17 We Major Industrial Policy: Whitelaw PS letter to No.10 (“Threat of national dock strike”) [contingency arrangements for national dock strike] [declassified 2012]
80 Oct 3 Fr Major Industrial Policy: Prior letter to Biffen (“Loans to the NDLB”) [financing of severance terms] [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 9 Mo Major Industrial Policy: Fowler minute to Pym (“Finances of the Port of London Authority and the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company”) [proposed legislation to increase financial assistance] [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 17 Tu Major Industrial Policy: Joseph letter to Fowler (“Finances of the Port of London Authority and of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company”) [severance payments] [declassified 2012]
81 Sep 14 Mo Major Industrial Policy: Brittan letter to Fowler (“Port of London Authority”) [closure of Royal docks] [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 9 Fr Major Industrial Policy: Jenkin minute to MT (“Port of London Authority and Mersey Docks and Harbour Company”) [voluntary severance payments] [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 20 Fr Major Industrial Policy: Howell letter to Brittan (“Port of London Authority”) [“drain on public funds”] [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 We Major Industrial Policy: Policy Unit minute for MT (“The threatened dock strikes; and the BR/ASLEF dispute”) [“this has been a nasty scare”] [declassified 2012]