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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 21 We Major Coal: Department of Trade & Industry letter to Charles Powell (“Soviet Assistance to the NUM”) ['the Government viewed with great concern the transfer of money'] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 3 Mo Major Coal: Mayhew letter to MT (“Sequestration of NUM’s assets”) [Attorney General indemnifies sequestrators for costs unrecovered from NUM] [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]
84 Nov 23 Fr Major Coal: FCO letter to Powell (“Supreme Soviet Visit”) [Soviet representatives warned against public support for NUM while in UK] [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 Nov 26 Mo Major Coal: Department of Trade & Industry letter to No.10 (“Coal Dispute: Effects on Mining Equipment Industry”) [impact on workforce] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 27 Tu Major Coal: Ingham minute to Butler ("Miners' Strike - TUC") [record of Ingham's call with Daily Mirror journalist on Walker meeting with TUC representatives] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 5 We Major Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 12 We Major Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs”) [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 6 Th Major Coal: Treasury minute to Treasury Solicitor (“Law Charges Vote: Revised Supplementary Estimate”) [sequestration of NUM assets] [classified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 6 Th Major Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (suggestion that MT write to congratulate Gill Blackman of the CEGB on power station endurance efforts) [miners' strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 7 Fr Major Coal: Hartley Booth minute to MT (“NCB/NUM Dispute - The Latest Report on Crime”) ['the commission of serious offences is increasing'] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 7 Fr Major Coal: King letter to Patrick Cormack MP (“Redundant Miners Unemployment Benefit”) [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 7 Fr Major Coal: Department of Trade & Industry letter to Department of Energy (“Coal Firing Scheme”) [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]
84 Dec 10 Mo Major Coal: MT letter to Gill Blackman of the CEGB (miners’ dispute) ['Peter Walker has told me about the splendid job you...are doing to keep the nation supplied with electricity during this difficult period'] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 20 Th Major Coal: Hartley Booth minute to MT (“Crime and the Coal Dispute”) ['a slowing down in the spate of crimes'] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 27 Tu Major Coal: AP News Wire (“NUM Branch President in Custody”) [arrest over attack on working miner] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 29 Th Major Coal: Press Office briefing for MT (“Brenda Stout: Daily Mirror article by Paul Foot”) [House of Commons PQs: line to take] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 18 Tu Major Coal: Hailsham letter to Brittan (“Miners’ Cases”) [DPP policy on prosecution of offences related to miners' strike: 'this is very sensitive territory'] [declassified Dec 2014]