Archive

1983 Jul 11 - 1984 Jan 26
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1325
Nationalised industries (Shipbuilding policy; prospects for British Shipbuilders) (Part 5)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 282
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84 Jan 25 We Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Younger, Walker, Jenkin, Tebbit, Rees, Redwood) ["Scott Lithgow"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 24 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Scott Lithgow") ["If ever there was a case for not bailing out a public sector disaster, this is it"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 24 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Scott Lithgow") [MT's conditions for meeting with STUC] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 24 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT ("Scott Lithgow") [background; papers; key questions] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 24 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: Lamont letter to Rees ("Britoil Contract at Scott Lithgow") [latest position on dispute with British Shipbuilding] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 24 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: Heseltine minute to MT ("Scott Lithgow") [comments on Younger proposals for recovery initiative in Inverclyde area] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 23 Mo Major Nationalised Industries: Younger minute to MT ("Scott Lithgow") [Britoil contractual dispute with British Shipbuilders & completion of the oil rig] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 23 Mo Major Nationalised Industries: Sir William Lithgow letter to MT (Scott Lithgow) [plea for Government investment & development to encourage private enterprise in the area following the setbacks of nationalisation] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 20 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Rees letter to Younger ("Scott Lithgow") [local area industrial regeneration proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 20 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Scott Lithgow and Beyond") [case against approving Younger's request for additional funding for Scottish Development Agency] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 20 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Scott Lithgow and Beyond") [arguments for and against meeting with STUC] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 20 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Tim Flesher minute to MT (Atlantic Conveyor replacement) [overdue and over-budget] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 17 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: Younger minute to MT ("Scott Lithgow") [case for financial support in recognition of firm's status as largest employer in the area; local regeneration] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 13 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Prior minute to MT ("Shipbuilding: EC Notification of UK Aid") ["early notification... to support both British Shipbuilders and Harland and Wolff Ltd"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 11 We Major Nationalised Industries: Prior PS letter to No.10 ("Harland and Wolff: Publication of Accounts") [overview] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 11 We Major Nationalised Industries: MT letter to Norman Godman MP (Scott Lithgow) [cancellation of Britoil contract; performance & future of the Company] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 11 We Major Nationalised Industries: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Shipbuilding - EC Notification of UK Shipbuilding Aid") [MT rejects Tebbit's 'bidding up' approach; corporate plans for British Shipbuilders and Harland & Wolff: Cockfield request to see papers further in advance] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 9 Mo Major Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Shipbuilding - EC Notification of UK Shipbuilding Aid") ["I am not happy about... [Norman Tebbit's] proposed approach to the Commission"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 6 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Younger letter to Tebbit ("Shipbuilding - EC Notification of UK Shipbuilding Aid") [supports need for increased Intervention Fund assistance] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 6 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit: Robert Young minute to Nicholas Owen ("British Shipbuilder' Pay Negotiations") [analysis of the settlement & its press coverage] [declassified Jan 2014]