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1983 May 4 - 1984 Mar 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1329
Nationalised industries (Coal mines) (Part 8)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 301
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83 Jun 23 Thu Coal: Walker minute to MT ("Power Station and Industrial Endurance") [MISC 57 report on increasing power station endurance in event of miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
83 Jun 28 Tue Coal: Parkinson minute to MT ("Power Station and Industrial Endurance") [comments on MISC 57 report on increasing power station endurance in event of miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
83 Jun 29 Wed Coal: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Power Station and Industrial Endurance") [comments on MISC 57 report on increasing power station endurance in event of miners' strike] [declassified 2014]
83 Jul 1 Fri Coal: No.10 letter to HMT ("Power Station Endurance in the Medium Term") [MT to call meeting on endurance before 19 September] [declassified 2014]
83 Jul 4 Mon Coal: No.10 minute to Department of Energy ("Power Station Industrial Endurance") [MT agrees to all proposals in Walker's minute] [declassified 2014]
83 Jul 21 Thu Coal: Armstrong minute to MT ("Power Station Endurance in the Medium Term") [MISC 57 report on extending power station endurance in the medium and longer term] [declassified 2014]
83 Jul 25 Mon Coal: No.10 minute to Armstrong ("Power Station Endurance in the Medium Term") [MT comments on MISC 57 report; defers decisions on options in the report until Walker presents NCB Corporate Plan for discussion] [declassified 2014]
83 Jul 28 Thu Coal: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Power Station Endurance in the Medium Term") [comments on MISC 57 report: "we should concentrate on those options like further stockpiling of coal"] [declassified 2014]
83 Aug 1 Mon Coal: Rees letter to Walker ("NCB: Investment and Financing Review 1983") [considerations for financing review: pit closures, miners' pay, prices, investment] [declassified 2014]
83 Aug 18 Thu Coal: Rickett note to Scholar (report of discussions with Department of Energy on coal strategy) [Walker 'unwilling to circulate a paper' for 15 September meeting: not prepared to commit himself prior to talks with MacGregor] [declassified 2014]
83 Sep 9 Fri Coal: Gregson minute to Scholar ("Coal") [argues for postponement of 15 September meeting on power station endurance] [declassified 2014]
83 Sep 14 Wed Coal: Gregson briefing for MT ("Miners' Pay") [brief for strategy meeting on miners' pay] [declassified 2014]
83 Sep 14 Wed Coal: Owen minute to MT ("Coal Industry Pay 1983") [comments on possible 5% pay settlement] [declassified 2014]
83 Sep 15 Thu Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Walker-Tebbit-Armstrong-Gregson-Scholar) [Ian MacGregor's strategy for coal, pit closures, redundancies, miners' pay] [declassified 2014]
83 Sep 21 Wed Coal: Gregson minute to Scholar ("Coal") [decisions on NCB's future financing needs, power station endurance, NCB strategy] [declassified 2014]
83 Oct 14 Fri Coal: Prime Minister's Briefing for PMQs ("Major Industrial Disputes") [declassified 2014]
83 Oct 21 Fri Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 ("Brief for the Prime Minister: NUM Special Delegate Conference: 21 October 1983") [NUM rejects NCB pay offer] [declassified 2014]
83 Oct 26 Wed Coal: Armstrong minute to MT ("Endurance in the Event of a Miners' Strike") [current situation and outstanding issues] [declassified 2014]
83 Oct 28 Fri Coal: Turnbull minute to MT (upcoming meetings with Gregson and Armstrong on miners' pay and power station endurance) [declassified 2014]
83 Oct 31 Mon Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Armstrong-Gregson) ["Enduring a coal strike"] [declassified 2014]