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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1092
Nationalised industries (Coal mines) (Part 7)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 330

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Date Value Title
83 Mar 2 We Major Coal: Armstrong minute to MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: The Coal Industry”) [possible strike action; power station endurance; publicity] [declassified 2013]
83 Mar 3 Th Major Coal: Scholar minute to King PS (“Asfordby”) [application to mine] [declassified 2013]
83 Mar 3 Th Major Coal: Vereker minute to Scholar (“MacGregor”) [“I see no point in denying that we are after him”] [declassified 2013]
83 Mar 7 Mo Major Coal: Ingham note for the record (Siddall speech) [“no justification whatsoever for linking the chairman’s use of the word ‘butchery’ with criticism of MacGregor”] [declassified 2013]
83 Mar 7 Mo Major Coal: Scholar note to MT (Asfordby decision) [no announcement while strike threatened] [declassified 2013]
83 Mar 8 Tu Major Coal: Lawson minute to Brittan (“Proposed Improvements in Redundancy Terms for Mineworkers”) [proposals and legislative action] [declassified 2013]
83 Mar 10 Th Major Coal: Ingham minute to Vereker (“Miners’ Ballot”) [“the last thing we should do today is to lend credibility to Scargill”] [declassified 2013]
83 Mar 11 Fr Major Coal: Vereker minute to Mount (“Coal”) [“I perceive four independent strands to current Whitehall thinking”] [declassified 2013]
83 Mar 16 We Major Coal: Lawson minute to MT (“Appointment of Mr MacGregor as Chairman of the NCB”) [arrangements and Siddall’s retirement] [declassified 2013]
83 Mar 17 Th Major Coal: Owen minute to Scholar (“National Coal Board Objectives”) [“opportunity to propose more ambitious objectives”] [declassified 2013]
83 Mar 28 Mo Major Coal: Rickett minute to MT (“NCB Chairmanship: Statement”) [“The Opposition attempted to manufacture outrage”] [declassified 2013]
83 Mar 28 Mo Major Coal: Lawson PS to No.10 (HC statement on appointment of MacGregor at NCB chairman) [encloses text] [declassified 2013]
83 Apr 29 Fr Major Coal: King PS minute to Flesher (“Commission on Energy and the Environment ‘Coal and the Environment’: Government Response”) [arrangements and briefing] [declassified 2013]
83 Apr 29 Fr Major Coal: Lawson minute to MT (“Transfer of Functions: Change in Planning Procedures for NCB Opencasting”) [legislation required] [declassified 2013]
83 May 10 Tu Major Coal: Scholar note to MT (pit closures) [NCB plans postponed] [declassified 2013]