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

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

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 379
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Showing items 21 - 40 of 136

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Date Valuesort descending Title
85 Jan 18 Fr Major Coal: Kinnock letter to MT (proposes energy review) ['would clearly serve the national interest'] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 27 Tu Major Coal: Alison note to MT (call from Secretary of Working Miners group) ['Many striking miners have been telling her, discreetly, that they intend to go back to work after Christmas, but not before, to avoid family intimidation over the holiday'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 18 Fr Major Coal: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 101(85) 3rd Meeting: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 14 Mo Major Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC101(85) 2nd (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 8 Tu Major Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC101(85) 1st (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 18 Fr Major Coal: FCO letter to Charles Powell (“Afghan Aid for British Miners”) [report on Afghan trade unionists' handing over of cheque to NUM] [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: 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 Nov 21 We Major Coal: No.10 letter to Department of Energy (“Coal Firing Scheme”) [deferral of review of scheme until it is 'possible to see more clearly the supply and demand balance after the strike'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 8 Tu Major Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Power Station Endurance”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 6 Th Major Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 40th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike) [declassified 2014]
85 Jan 15 Tu Major Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 15 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 21 We Major Coal: Ingham minute to MT and Butler (“After the NUM strike”) ['how we might manage a return to ‘normal’'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 15 Tu Major Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 28 We Major Coal: ?Press Association report (1153Z) (“'TUC will do all it can to end strike'”) [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 29 Th Major Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(84) 39th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, EC Affairs, Miners' Strike, BT flotation) [declassified 2014]
84 Nov 28 We Major Coal: ?Press Association report (1149Z) (“£4.6m of NUM Cash Frozen”) [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 6 Th Major Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Power Station Endurance”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [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]
84 Dec 12 We Major Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs”) [declassified Dec 2014]