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1984 Jan 27 - 1984 May 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1326
Nationalised industries (Shipbuilding policy; prospects for British Shipbuilders) (Part 6)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 275
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84 Feb 10 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Scott Lithgow") [British Shipbuilders' conditional agreement for sale of shipyard to Trafalgar House] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 6 Mo Major Nationalised Industries: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (Shipbuilding - EC notification of UK shipbuilding aid) [temporary extension of intervention fund] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 13 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (warshipbuilding: order for Type 22 frigates) [Heseltine/Tebbit dispute over implications for Merseyside of rejecting Cammell Laird bid] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 17 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("British Shipbuilders' Corporate Plan 1983/84-1986-87") [merchant shipbuilding; EFL for 1984-85; EC subsidy] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 17 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Harland and Wolff Limited: Strategy and Funding") [future strategy; Intervention Fund] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 9 We Major Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Warship building") [excess capacity/shipyard closure; Type 22 frigate orders; privatisation of shipyards] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 18 We Major Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Tebbit ("British Shipbuilders: Objectives") [comments on Tebbit's draft objectives submitted to MT on 29 March] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 17 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Cockfield minute to MT ("Shipbuilding") [British Shipbuilders; Harland & Wolff: comments on projected productivity and costs] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 10 Th Major Nationalised Industries: Cockfield minute to MT ("Warshipbuilding") [tender to eliminate unsuitable bids; privatisation/sale of shipyards] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 10 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: Heseltine letter to Tebbit (warshipbuilding: order for Type 22 frigates) [Heseltine/Tebbit dispute over implications for Merseyside of rejecting Cammell Laird bid] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 16 We Major Nationalised Industries: Heseltine PS letter to Tebbit PS ("Warshipbuilding") [future orders] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Mar 12 Mo Major Nationalised Industries: Howe minute to Tebbit ("Shipbuilding: Intervention Fund") [negotiations with European Commission] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 3 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Lamont letter to Alick Buchanan-Smith ("BP Rigg at Scott Lithgow") [BP threat to cancel contract] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 28 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: Lamont letter to Alick Buchanan-Smith (Scott Lithgow: BP oil rig contract) [cancellation/renegotiation] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 14 Mo Major Nationalised Industries: Lamont letter to Jenkin (British Shipbuilders meeting with Shipbuilding Negotiating Committee) [redundancies at Cammell Laird] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 6 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Lamont letter to MT ("British Shipbuilders: job losses at Cammell Laird) [imminent announcement; implications for Merseyside of rejecting Cammell Laird bid for Type 22 frigates order] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Mar 26 Mo Major Nationalised Industries: Lamont letter to Rees ("Scott Lithgow") [Trafalgar House purchase: contingent liability for costs incurred by late delivery of Britoil rig] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 30 Mo Major Nationalised Industries: MT letter to Sir William Lithgow (Scott Lithgow) [closure & its effect on the Inverclyde area] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 30 Mo Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT ("Scott Lithgow") [closure & its effect on the Inverclyde area] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Mar 23 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Scott Lithgow") [relative merits of closure versus sale to Trafalgar House in terms of public costs] [declassified Jan 2014]