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1982 Sep 9 - 1983 May 10
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

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

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 330
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82 Nov 2 Tue Coal: Lawson minute to Howe (“NUM Wage Claim”) [“The Union have now accepted the wage offer and have called off the overtime ban”] [declassified 2013]
82 Nov 3 Wed Coal: Mount minute to MT (“Cabinet, 4 November: Industrial Relations: Pay”) [“risk that decisions are going to be taken which will set in concrete existing assumptions and expectations about pay”] [declassified 2013]
82 Nov 10 Wed Coal: Howe minute to MT (“NUM Wage Settlement”) [“the NUM did have some success in using the threat of strike action”] [declassified 2013]
82 Nov 18 Thu Coal: Vereker minute to Mount (“Coal”) [latest ballot; closures; prospects for the Autumn] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 3 Fri Coal: Gregson minute to Scholar (“Power Station Endurance”) [withstanding a coal strike] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 3 Fri Coal: Vereker minute to Scholar (“Power Station Endurance”) [“we must always bear the sensitivity of the pit closures issue in mind”] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 10 Fri Coal: Lawson minute to MT (“NCB Pit Closures”) [proposals and recent closures] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 13 Mon Coal: Howe minute to MT (“Power Station Endurance”) [“we must do everything possible to minimise the cost to the Exchequer”] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 14 Tue Coal: Lawson minute to MT (“Power Station Endurance”) [feasibility studies] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 15 Wed Coal: Mount minute to MT (“NCB Chairman”) [MacGregor “seen as a hatchet man”] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 16 Thu Coal: Howe minute to MT (“NCB Pit Closures”) [“they can only improve the financial position of the industry if they reduce their excess capacity”] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 17 Fri Coal: Moore letter to Brittan (“Foundry Coke Prices”) [assistance to NCB] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 21 Tue Coal: Moore letter to Howe (“The South Wales NUM Strike Demand”) [“it is by no means certain that, if a strike were to start, it would ‘spread like wildfire’”] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 22 Wed Coal: Gregson minute to Scholar (“Power Station Endurance”) [“There is no intervention which it would be useful for the Prime Minister to make”] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 23 Thu Coal: Brittan letter to Moore (“Foundry Coke Prices”) [“very reluctant to agree to an extension of the foundry grant for another year”] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 23 Thu Coal: Lamont letter to Brittan (“Foundry Coke Prices”) [“concerned about the size of the price increases that would be necessary”] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 23 Thu Coal: Scholar minute to Lawson PS (“Power Station Endurance”) [action to be taken] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 23 Thu Coal: Lawson letter to Howe (“Power Station Endurance”) [cost of accelerated delivery exercise] [declassified 2013]
82 Dec 24 Fri Coal: Vereker minute to Walters (“Pit Closures”) [NCB discussion document] [declassified 2013]
83 Jan 11 Tue Coal: Vereker minute to Walters (“Pit Closures”) [NCB discussion document: “the present draft is hopeless”] [declassified 2013]