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PREM19/931
Transport (Railway policy: British Rail pay dispute) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Secret
Page count: 264
Themes: Transport

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Date Value Title
81 Aug 4 Tu Major Transport: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Lankester (British Rail) [trade union negotiations] [declassified 2012]
81 Aug 5 We Major Transport: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“British Rail finances and pay”) [“we must be ready to do everything in our power to promote the necessary changes”] [declassified 2012]
81 Aug 6 Th Major Transport: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Lankester (“Rail strike”) [declassified 2012]
81 Aug 6 Th Major Transport: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Lankester (“BR strike: MISC 57 implications”) [declassified 2012]
81 Aug 6 Th Major Transport: Clarke minute to MT (“British Rail finances and pay”) [“matter for negotiation between the Board and the unions”] [declassified 2012]
81 Aug 7 Fr Major Transport: Home Office letter to No.10 (British rail) [strike threat] [declassified 2012]
81 Aug 7 Fr Major Transport: No.10 letter to Fowler PS (British rail) [strike threat] [declassified 2012]
81 Aug 11 Tu Major Transport: Fowler minute to MT (“British rail”) [strike threat] [declassified 2012]
81 Aug 18 Tu Major Transport: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Rail strike”) [declassified 2012]
81 Aug 20 Th Major Transport: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Fowler, Joseph, Lord Gowrie, Howell, Hamish Gray) [“Rail strike”] [declassified 2012]
81 Aug 20 Th Major Transport: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Fowler, Joseph, Lord Gowrie, Howell, Hamish Gray) [“The implication of a rail strike for power station coal stocks”] [declassified 2012]
81 Aug 21 Fr Major Transport: Fowler minute to MT (“Rail pay and productivity”) [trade union negotiations] [declassified 2012]
81 Sep 8 Tu Major Transport: Alan Walters letter to Department of Transport (British Rail: passenger service subsidies) [declassified 2012]
81 Sep 29 Tu Major Transport: Brittan letter to Howell (“British Rail: External Financing Limits”) [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 7 We Major Transport: Howell PS minute to No.10 (“Rail fares”) [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 16 Fr Major Transport: Howell PS letter to No.10 (British rail pay and finances) [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 20 Tu Major Transport: Howell letter to Brittan (“British rail pay and finances”) [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 21 We Major Transport: Brittan letter to Howell (“British rail: increase in grant”) [loss of revenue] [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 26 Th Major Transport: Howell PS letter to Brittan PS (“Railway productivity”) [loss of revenue] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 16 We Major Transport: Cabinet Office CPRS letter to No.10 (“Review of British Rail finances”) [declassified 2012]