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PREM19/1094
Nationalised industries (Gas and electricity pricing policy; withstanding a strike in the gas industry) (Part 8)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 246
Themes: Industry, Privatized & state industries, Pay, Public spending & borrowing, Trade unions, Strikes & other union action

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Date Value Title
83 May 12 Th Major Nationalised industries: Younger letter to Brittan ("Financial target and performance aims for the Scottish Electricity Boards") [proposals] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 May 24 Tu Major Nationalised industries: Lawson PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Pay of ESI clericals") [details of settlement] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jun 27 Mo Major Nationalised industries: Cabinet Office CPRS letter to Walker ("Objectives for the Chairman of the Electricity Council") ["two points which you might wish to consider when finalising the letter"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jul 26 Tu Major Nationalised industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Walker ("BGC October gas pricing proposals") ["From August onwards I would expect the 12 month rate to be around 5 per cent"; MT criticises writing & circulation of letter] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Aug 15 Mo Major Nationalised industries: Walker minute to MT (Energy prices) ["I believe we are at a stage in the counter-inflation programme where we badly need to see nationalised industry price increases kept to a minimum"; MT agrees to meeting of key Ministers to address issue] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 9 Fr Major Nationalised industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Energy prices") ["I attach a paper which considers the general principles we should be following... on the prices of different fuels and why these point to higher real gas prices"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 13 Tu Major Nationalised industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Walker, Younger, Lamont) ["Energy prices"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 23 Fr Minor Nationalised industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Gas prices") [recommendation to set up Interdeparmental Group] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 5 We Minor Nationalised industries: Cabinet Office letter to Department of Energy ("Withstanding a strike in the gas industry") [nominations for Official Group] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 18 Tu Major Nationalised industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Gas prices") ["A rise of 6 per cent... as proposed by the Chancellor, would be consistent with the decisions reached at the Prime Minister's meeting of 13 September 1983 to maintain gas prices in real terms"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 24 Mo Major Nationalised industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Gas prices") ["I have seen Peter Walker's minute of 20 October... I really do find it hard to believe that the difference between 5 per cent and 6 per cent could cause the problems he foresees. All we would be doing is compensating for inflation since the last price increase"; freeze on industrial prices] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 26 We Major Nationalised industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute (internal) to Turnbull ("Public expenditure: energy industries") [potential savings; price freeze; investment] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 26 We Major Nationalised industries: No.10 minute to MT (BGC's negotiations for Sleipner gas) [cover note for attached Walker correspondence with Lawson - "a useful piece of contingency planning"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Nov 28 Mo Major Nationalised industries: Walker minute to MT (Gas Safety responsibilities) [transfer to Health & Safety Executive] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Nov 28 Mo Major Nationalised industries: No.10 minute to MT (electricity prices) [MT dismisses Electricity Council savings propositions: "ridiculous. We are paying £1 billion to subsidise coal and not getting it back on electricity prices"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Nov 30 We Minor Nationalised industries: Walker PS letter to No.10 ("Briefing for Prime Minister's Questions") ["You asked... for a note on the different figures for the profits of the gas and electricity industries which had recently been quoted in Parliament"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mo Major Nationalised industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (electricity supply industries' EFL) [detail of last increase] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 8 Th Major Nationalised industries: No.10 letter to Walker PS ("Electricity prices") [MT concern about delay in settling prices; request for briefing to be circulated in advance of Cabinet meeting] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 12 Mo Minor Nationalised industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Coal/electricity prices") ["idea of obliging the CEGB to pay a higher price for coal, thus enabling us to reduce the subsidy to the NCB. I attach a note which convinces me that this would be a bad idea"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 14 We Major Nationalised industries: Younger letter to Rees ("Scottish Electricity Boards: External Financing Limits and prices") ["To allow sizeable [price increases]... which would be attributed to the construction of Torness, which represents a major financial burden on SSEB, would attract severe criticism of our nuclear programme"] [declassified Aug 2013]