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 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 82 Dec 21 Tu | Major | 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 Nov 3 We | Major | 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 15 We | Major | Coal: Mount minute to MT (“NCB Chairman”) [MacGregor “seen as a hatchet man”] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Oct 28 Th | Major | Coal: No.10 record of conversation (meeting on possible miners’ strike) [“the police would face a major task in handling mass picketing”] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Sep 10 Fr | Major | Coal: No.10 record of conversation (“Coal Industry”) [NUM-NCB pay talks] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Jan 27 Th | Major | 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] |
| 83 Mar 17 Th | Major | Coal: Owen minute to Scholar (“National Coal Board Objectives”) [“opportunity to propose more ambitious objectives”] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Mar 2 We | Major | Coal: Rickett letter to Lawson PS (“South Wales Miners’ Strike”) [briefing for Question Time] [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 3 Th | Major | Coal: Scholar minute to King PS (“Asfordby”) [application to mine] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Dec 23 Th | Major | Coal: Scholar minute to Lawson PS (“Power Station Endurance”) [action to be taken] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Sep 14 Tu | Major | Coal: Scholar minute to MT (NCB negotiating strategy) [media reports] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Oct 22 Fr | Major | Coal: Scholar minute to MT (“Miners’ Strike Ballot”) [government preparedness] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Mar 7 Mo | Major | Coal: Scholar note to MT (Asfordby decision) [no announcement while strike threatened] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 May 10 Tu | Major | Coal: Scholar note to MT (pit closures) [NCB plans postponed] [declassified 2013] |
| 83 Feb 24 Th | Major | Coal: Tebbit letter to Lawson (“Proposed Improvements in Redundancy Terms for Mineworkers”) [“any announcement will provoke the usual outcry”] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Oct 26 Tu | Major | Coal: Vereker minute to Butler (“The Miners”) [power station endurance] [declassified 2013] |
| 82 Nov 18 Th | Major | Coal: Vereker minute to Mount (“Coal”) [latest ballot; closures; prospects for the Autumn] [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 Feb 22 Tu | Major | Coal: Vereker minute to Mount (“MISC 57”) [“continues its work on long-term endurance in the event of a miners’ strike”] [declassified 2013] |