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1982 Oct 14 - 1983 Mar 30
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PREM19/1093
Nationalised industries (Gas and electricity industries; report by Central Policy Review Staff (CPRS) on electricity prices for industry; gas appliance retailing; Monopolies and Mergers Commission (MMC) report on efficiency in Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB)) (Part 7)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 265
Themes: Privatized & state industries, Public spending & borrowing

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Date Value Title
82 Oct 18 Mo Major Nationalised industries: Treasury briefing for MT ("Public expenditure and electricity prices") [paper on future levels] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 18 Mo Major Nationalised industries: Lawson minute to MT ("Electricity prices") ["It is now clear that the current level... cannot be justified, and that corrective action should be taken as soon as possible"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 18 Mo Major Nationalised industries: Lawson letter to Brittan (electricity industry) [savings for 1983/84] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 18 Mo Major Nationalised industries: Cabinet Office letter to Departments ("Withstanding a strike in the electricity supply industry") [nominations for official study group] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 19 Tu Major Nationalised industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Lawson, Brittan, Younger) ["Electricity prices"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 25 Mo Major Nationalised industries: Lawson letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("BGC pay negotiations") [terms of settlement] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Oct 27 We Major Nationalised industries: Jenkin letter to Lawson ("CPRS report on electricity prices for industry") ["None of these recommendations... are likely to provide enough relief for the electricity-intensive users who are suffering the most severe competitive disadvantage"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 1 Mo Major Nationalised industries: Younger letter to Brittan (electricity prices 1983/84: Scotland) [draft Written Answer] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 10 We Major Nationalised industries: Lawson letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Electricity prices 1983/84: presentation") [proposed Written Answer] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 11 Th Major Nationalised industries: Lawson letter to Brittan ("Standing charges") ["I do not accept that I should be inhibited from seeking to make the electricity and gas industries more responsive to their consumers by some spurious concept of nationalised industry solidarity"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 19 Fr Major Nationalised industries: Brittan letter to Lawson (external financing of the electricity supply industry & financial targets) [details & arrangements] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 30 Tu Major Nationalised industries: Lawson minute to MT ("Electricity prices for industry") [comments on the conclusions of the Central Policy Review Staff report] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 1 We Major Nationalised industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Electricity prices for industry") [conclusions from Central Police Review Staff report; options] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 2 Th Major Nationalised industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Lawson, Jenkin, Younger, Brittan) [electricity prices for industry: conclusions from Central Policy Review Staff report] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 7 Tu Major Nationalised industries: Lawson memorandum for NEDC ("Electricity pricing") [summary of Government review & conclusions] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 14 Tu Major Nationalised industries: MT letter to Sir Robin Ibbs (electricity pricing) [proposed price reduction for ICI chlorine manufacturing operations at Runcorn & comparison with European costs] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 21 Tu Major Nationalised industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Lawson ("E(NI) Discussion of the Review of the British Gas Gas Corporation's Performance and Corporate Plan") [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 22 We Major Nationalised industries: Lawson letter to Lord Cockfield ("CEGB response to the MMC Report") [Central Electricity Generating Board/Monopolies & Mergers Commission; "In light of the importance of the MMC's "public interest" finding and the implication of this for the Sizewell Inquiry, I would like to publish this response as soon as possible"; MT advises against simultaneous publication of letter to Chairman of CEGB setting out his objectives "in case it leads to demands for others"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 19 We Major Nationalised industries: Lord Cockfield letter to Baroness Young ("Gas and Electricity Legal Metrology Work ") [proposed transfer of responsibilities from Department of Energy to Department of Trade] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 25 Tu Major Nationalised industries: Lawson letter to John Sparrow ("CPRS Report on electricity prices") [Lawson comments on Central Policy Review Staff recommendations] [declassified Aug 2013]