1982 Mar 10 - 1984 Feb 23
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1162
Aerospace (Future and structure of British Airways; Price Waterhouse Report; privatisation) (Part 1)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2014 Jan 3 |
| Classification: | Confidential |
| Page count: | 218 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value |
Title |
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| 82 Apr 5 Mo | Major | Aerospace: Biffen briefing for MT ("British Airways: Price Waterhouse report") ["I thought it would be helpful to let you have a few preliminary points in advance of our discussion with Sir John King on 8 April"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Sep 10 Fr | Major | Aerospace: Brittan letter to Lord Cockfield ("British Airways financial position") ["massively insolvent. They are expecting the taxpayer to pick up the bill"; proposals for Government response to latest BA draft accounts; MT in favour of pay cuts & redundancies] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Oct 13 We | Major | Aerospace: Brittan letter to Lord Cockfield ("British Airways") ["default clauses in the loan agreement could require the Treasury to make immediate repayment of a large proportion of BA's foreign debt"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 May 5 We | Major | Aerospace: Brittan letter to Lord Cockfield ("British Airways") ["The Price Waterhouse analysis of... [BA] deficiencies makes disturbing reading"; consequent remedial priorities] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Jul 23 Fr | Major | Aerospace: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("British Airways") [current position; Corporate Plan; financial target for next three years] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Nov 8 Mo | Major | Aerospace: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("British Airways") [privatisation] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Mar 31 We | Major | Aerospace: Central Policy Review Staff letter to Biffen ("Draft objectives for British Airways and British Airports ") [outlines need for more precise objectives, to address BA financial crisis, than those presented in Biffen minute to MT of 10 March] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Nov 5 Fr | Major | Aerospace: Central Policy Review Staff minute to MT ("British Airways") [privatisation] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Nov 10 We | Major | Aerospace: Department of Trade record of conversation ("British Airways") [Lord Cockfield, Sir John King: report on outcome of King meeting with MT to discuss privatisation] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 May 24 Mo | Major | Aerospace: Gow minute to MT ("British Airways") [Treasury dispute with Sir John King over proposed senior management salary] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Sep 1 We | Major | Aerospace: Lord Cockfield letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("British Airways' financial position") ["writing to alert you to the position expected to be shown in BA's forthcoming annual report and accounts"; MT: "why any increase in pay? We cannot just agree to every request which private companies could not afford"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 May 27 Th | Major | Aerospace: Lord Cockfield letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("British Airways: sale of International Aeradio Ltd") ["IAL... needs new money.... I do not think we should provide it... The question of disposal is essentially... for the BA Board... I would expect to be consulted... clearly important that there is no avoidable criticism"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Oct 6 We | Major | Aerospace: Lord Cockfield minute to Brittan ("British Airways") [redundancy payments & pension liabilities; MT: "I feel we have been bounced"] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Nov 1 Mo | Major | Aerospace: Lord Cockfield minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Privatisation") ["British Airways; airports; and export credit insurance"; MT notes concerns about effect of BA capital restructuring on British Caledonian] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Nov 4 Th | Major | Aerospace: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("British Airways") [privatisation] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Jul 12 Tu | Major | Aerospace: Lord McFadzean letter to MT (submission to House of Commons committee on industry & trade) [defence of British Airways and its senior management] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Sep 10 Fr | Major | Aerospace: MT letter to Chairman of British Caledonian (British Airways privatisation and the future of the civil aviation industry) [response to concerns about impact of BA privatisation on British Caledonian] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 83 Dec 19 Mo | Major | Aerospace: MT letter to Chairman of British Caledonian Airways Ltd (disparity in size between British Airways and other British airlines) [proposals for reducing disparity] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Oct 28 Th | Major | Aerospace: MT letter to Lord McFadzean of Kelvinside (British Airways) [response to Lord McFadzean's defence of BA record] [declassified Jan 2014] |
| 82 Nov 22 Mo | Major | Aerospace: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with Sir John King) [British Airways privatisation] [declassified Jan 2014] |