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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 Dec 15 Wed Coal: Mount minute to MT (“NCB Chairman”) [MacGregor “seen as a hatchet man”] [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 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]
83 Feb 14 Mon Coal: Brittan letter to Lawson (“CEGB Coal Imports”) [“there is the strongest case against such artificial distortions to the market”] [declassified 2013]
83 Feb 24 Thu Coal: Brittan letter to Lawson (“Proposed Improvements in Redundancy Terms for Mineworkers”) [“extremely generous”] [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 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 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]
83 Jan 27 Thu Coal: No.10 record of conversation (“Pit Closures”) [“Many of the pits most vulnerable to closure in 1983/84 would be in Scotland and Wales”] [declassified 2013]
82 Oct 27 Wed Coal: Ingham minute to MT (“Presentation - Protectionism: Coal”) [“we need to ensure that we do not get a rash of silly protectionist stories”] [declassified 2013]
83 Mar 7 Mon 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 2 Wed Coal: Rickett letter to Lawson PS (“South Wales Miners’ Strike”) [briefing for Question Time] [declassified 2013]
83 Mar 28 Mon Coal: Rickett minute to MT (“NCB Chairmanship: Statement”) [“The Opposition attempted to manufacture outrage”] [declassified 2013]
83 Apr 29 Fri 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 Fri Coal: Lawson minute to MT (“Transfer of Functions: Change in Planning Procedures for NCB Opencasting”) [legislation required] [declassified 2013]
83 Mar 2 Wed Coal: Armstrong minute to MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: The Coal Industry”) [possible strike action; power station endurance; publicity] [declassified 2013]
83 Mar 1 Tue Coal: Jenkin letter to Lawson (“Proposed Improvements in Redundancy Terms for Mineworkers”) [“we must have very sound grounds on which to defend the proposed improvement”] [declassified 2013]
83 Feb 24 Thu Coal: Tebbit letter to Lawson (“Proposed Improvements in Redundancy Terms for Mineworkers”) [“any announcement will provoke the usual outcry”] [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 Sep 9 Thu Coal: Gregson minute to MT (“Coal Industry”) [pay talks, power station endurance] [declassified 2013]