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1983 Apr 5 - 1983 Dec 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

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

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 246
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83 Dec 29 Thu Nationalised industries: Rees letter to Walker ("BGC 1983 Corporate Plan") [British Gas: outstanding issues not addressed by the Plan; gas exports] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 21 Wed Nationalised industries: No.10 minute to MT (Audit Commission) [cover note referring to an AC manual which "illustrates some of the horrors the AC has uncovered"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 21 Wed Nationalised industries: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Withstanding a strike in the gas industry") [Official Group (MISC 98) report & summary of key points] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 16 Fri Nationalised industries: Association of British Chambers of Commerce letter to MT (electricity prices) [cover letter for attached letter from Director-General to Peter Walker] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 14 Wed 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]
83 Dec 14 Wed Nationalised industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute (internal) to Turnbull ("Electricity prices") ["A 3% rise... would not be inconsistent with economic pricing principles"; Turnbull supports MT inclination to limit rise to 2%] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 14 Wed Nationalised industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Public Expenditure Survey 1983: electricity prices") [efficiency savings/price increases] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 8 Thu 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 5 Mon Nationalised industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (electricity supply industries' EFL) [detail of last increase] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Nov 28 Mon Nationalised industries: Walker minute to MT (Gas Safety responsibilities) [transfer to Health & Safety Executive] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Nov 28 Mon 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 Oct 26 Wed 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 Wed 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 Oct 24 Mon 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 18 Tue 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 Sep 13 Tue Nationalised industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Walker, Younger, Lamont) ["Energy prices"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Sep 9 Fri 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 Aug 15 Mon 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 Jul 26 Tue 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 Jun 27 Mon 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]