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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1084
Local government (Industrial action in water industry; contingency planning; settlement following Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) inquiry; threat of industrial action in fire service over pensions) (Part 3)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 228
Themes: Privatized & state industries, Pay, Public spending & borrowing, Trade unions, Strikes & other union action, Local government, Local government finance

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Date Value Title
83 Feb 21 Mo Major Local government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, King, Whitelaw, Heseltine, Tebbit, Younger, Edwards, Brittan, Ingham & others) [water workers' strike] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 22 Tu Major Local government: No.10 Policy Unit minute (internal) to Scholar ("Committee of Inquiry on the Water Dispute") [case against public criticism of the Inquiry] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 22 Tu Major Local government: No.10 minute to MT ("Water Strike - regional presentation") [regional press coverage of the strike] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 23 We Major Local government: No.10 minute to MT ("Statements on Water and the Foreign Affairs Council") [summary of debates in Parliament] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 24 Th Major Local government: No.10 minute to MT ("Wrong figures from the DoE") [water industry pay dispute; apology from Tom King's office for provision of incorrect figures & from Tom King for confusion about data he provided at previous meetings] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 28 Mo Major Local government: No.10 Policy Unit minute (internal) to Scholar ("Local Authority Manuals") [analysis of pay dispute settlement] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 10 Th Major Local government: King minute to MT ("Water Charges Rebate") ["for those customers who were deprived of their water supply during the strike... we are encouraging generosity [from the water authorities] rather than parsimony" - (at MT's urging)] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 22 Tu Major Local government: Tebbit minute to MT ("National Water Strike") [summary of conversation with Chairman of ACAS about "the course of this dispute and the role played in it by ACAS"; MT agrees to request for meeting to discuss further] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 12 Tu Major Local government: No.10 Policy Unit minute (internal) to Scholar ("Fire Service Pensions Dispute") [deployment of army in event of strike action] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 19 Tu Major Local government: Whitelaw letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Fire Service Pensions") ["I can now report the outcome of the Joint Pensions Committee meeting, and my decision"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Apr 29 Fr Major Local government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Future Pay Managing in the Water Industry") [decentralising pay bargaining] [declassified Aug 2013]