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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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85 Jan 4 Fri Coal: Pantling letter to Bennion (“Miners’ cases”) [Section 7 of 1975 Conspiracy Act] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 18 Fri Coal: Kinnock letter to MT (proposes energy review) ['would clearly serve the national interest'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 11 Fri Coal: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 101(85) 2nd Meeting: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 16 Wed 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 18 Fri 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 19 Sat Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker) [miners' strike: TUC proposals for future of the coal industry; NCB-NUM discussions] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 12 Wed Coal: Butler minute to MT ("TUC Meeting with the Government") [miners' strike: report on Kenneth Couzens' meeting with senior TUC representatives] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 30 Fri Coal: Ingham minute to MT (incident in the coal dispute: Merthyr Vale Colliery) [concrete post thrown on to taxi carrying working miner: death of taxi driver] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 21 Wed 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]
84 Nov 22 Thu Coal: No.10 briefing for MT (miners' strike at PMQs) [present situation; NCB manipulation of coal stock figures; Church Leaders' call for negotiations; position of Roy Hattersley; withdrawal of 'Hit List'; job losses] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 27 Tue 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]
84 Nov 28 Wed Coal: ?Press Association report (1149Z) (“£4.6m of NUM Cash Frozen”) [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 28 Wed Coal: ?Press Association report (1153Z) (“'TUC will do all it can to end strike'”) [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 28 Wed Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 30 Fri Coal: ?Press Association reports (1713-1718Z) (“The leadership of the NUM were today facing the 'Day of Reckoning'”) [sequestration of NUM funds] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 30 Fri Coal: Turnbull minute to MT (incident at Mertyhr Vale Colliery: death of taxi driver) [statement by Neil Kinnock] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 30 Fri Coal: Mayhew minute to MT (review of DPP Policy on prosecution of offences arising from miners' dispute) [DPP will seek expedited trials for intimidation offences] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 1 Sat Coal: No.10 Duty Clerk note to MT (Court of Appeal dismisses NUM appeal againt sequestration of assets) [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 4 Tue Coal: Department of Energy record of conversation (Walker-TUC General Secretary Norman Willis) [TUC attempts to resolve coal dispute] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 4 Tue Coal: Turnbull note to MT (Walker to meet with TUC senior representatives on 5 December) [TUC intervention in coal dispute: 'Mr Walker will take a robust line'] [declassified Dec 2014]