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1984 Nov 21 - 1985 Jan 18
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1578
Nationalised industries (Coal mines) (Part 15)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 379
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84 Nov 28 We Major Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 21 We Major Coal: Armstrong minute to MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal”) [suggestions for reports] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 28 We Major Coal: Attorney General's Office letter to No.10 (“Miners’ Dispute: Sequestration of the NUM’s Assets”) [NUM “tried to put itself outside the reach of the court”] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 10 Mo Major Coal: Attorney General’s Office note to No.10 (“The Indemnity by the Attorney General to the Sequestrators of the NUM’s Assets”) [briefing note] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 16 We Major Coal: Baroness Elles MEP, Vice-President of the European Parliament, letter to Walker (European Parliament's Huckfield Resolution on trade unions) [Resolution condemns 'repressive acts against trade unions'] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 12 We Major Coal: Brittan letter to Havers (“Miners’ Dispute”) [DPP's policy on prosecution of offences arising from the miners' strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 10 Th Major Coal: Butler letter to Armstrong (report of visit of Leeds University professor to Moscow) [friend of Scargill's possible connections to Soviet Union] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 18 Fr Major Coal: Butler minute to MT (“Miners’ Strike”) [updates from Walker for discussion with MT: secret NUM discussions with NCB; proposed TUC statement on strike; proposed parliamentary debate on strike; Kinnock letter] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 12 We Major Coal: Butler minute to MT ("TUC Meeting with the Government") [miners' strike: report on Kenneth Couzens' meeting with senior TUC representatives] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 19 Sa Major Coal: Butler minute to MT (draft TUC plan for the coal industry: Walker's response) ['Walker must not allow himself to be manoeuvred into a position in which he is morally committed to welcoming...an unsatisfactory TUC statement'] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 5 We Major Coal: Butler minute to MT (report of Walker's meeting with TUC representatives) ['they did not know what to do to get the strike settled'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 16 We Major Coal: Butler note to Richard Hatfield (miners’ strike reports requiring action) ['Can you please reassure the Prime Minister that, in the absence of action by us, these reports do not simply lie unpursued?'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 7 Mo Major Coal: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 101(85) 1st Meeting: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 11 Fr Major Coal: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 101(85) 2nd Meeting: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 18 Fr Major Coal: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 101(85) 3rd Meeting: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 26 Mo Major Coal: Conservative Research Department briefing (“Coal - Limit of Deficit Grants Order - Payments Schemes Amendments Order”) ['the fundamental issues at stake'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 11 Fr Major Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Coal Industry Dispute - Early Report for 11 January”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 16 We Major Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Coal Industry Dispute - Early Report for 16 January”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 9 We Major Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Coal Industry Dispute - Early Report for 9 January”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 3 Th Major Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Briefing - Thursday 3 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]