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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 5 Th Major Nationalised Industries: Howe minute to MT ("Shipbuilding - EC Notification of UK Shipbuilding Aid") [comments on Tebbit proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 23 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: MT letter to General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Conference (Scott Lithgow) ["must face up to the realities of the commercial world"; refutes case for Govt intervention in contract dispute with Britoil] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 23 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: MT letter to Norman Godman MP (Scott Lithgow) [declines request for meeting to discuss cancellation of Britoil contract] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 23 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: MT letter to Sir William Lithgow (Scott Lithgow) [refuses to consider Govt intervention in contract dispute with Britoil but pledges Govt resources to minimise local impact should loss of contract lead to closure of the firm] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 23 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Shipbuilding - EC Notification of UK Shipbuilding Aid") [comments on Tebbit proposals; MT unhappy with quality of DTI submission] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 22 Th Major Nationalised Industries: Tebbit minute to MT ("Shipbuilding - EC Notification of UK Shipbuilding Aid") [MT unconvinced by Tebbit's argument for early notification] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 20 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Scott Lithgow/Britoil") [announcement of contract cancellation, with implication of ensuing closure; "very little support from any part of the House"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Dec 7 We Major Nationalised Industries: Rees letter to Prior ("Harland and Wolff: Corporate Plan") [options] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 23 We Major Nationalised Industries: Norman Lamont letter to MT (British Shipbuilders' figures in ship repair) [final monthly update] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 10 Th Major Nationalised Industries: Prior letter to Rees ("Harland and Wolff Ltd: Blue Star Line Order") [outline of terms & case for their acceptance] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 9 We Major Nationalised Industries: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Scott Lithgow/Britoil Contract") ["There is a dispute between colleagues on the way forward"; MT's view] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 7 Mo Major Nationalised Industries: Rees letter to Lamont (Scott Lithgow/Britoil Contract) ["we would be prepared to back... [the Chair] on a decision to terminate"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 3 Th Major Nationalised Industries: Buchanan-Smith letter to Lamont ("Britoil Contract at Scott Lithgow") ["If Britoil are prepared to negotiate... it would be a mistake not to steer BS into this course of action"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 1 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: Younger letter to Rees ("Britoil Contract at Scott Lithgow") [case for supporting British Shipbuilding to keep shipyard open] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 28 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Tebbit letter to Tom King (British Shipbuilding: pay & redundancies) [negotiations with unions; strike action] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 28 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Lamont letter to Rees ("Britoil Contract at Scott Lithgow (SL)") [case for advising SL to renegotiate contract for what would be the shipyard's last order before closure] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 28 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Conservative Research Department briefing ("Debate on British Shipbuilders (Borrowing Powers) Bill on Tuesday 1st November 1983") [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 4 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: Heseltine letter to Parkinson (Britoil Contract at Scott Lithgow) [implications, for the Royal Navy's Seabed Operations Vessel, of early closure of shipyard, due to cancellation of Britoil contract] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 3 Mo Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("British Shipbuilders - Borrowing Limits") [DTI proposal to raise limit; advice to MT should she have to adjudicate between Treasury & DTI] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Sep 30 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Parkinson letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("British Shipbuilders: Borrowing Limits") [legislation to raise limit & question of the amount] [declassified Jan 2014]