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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 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]
85 Jan 19 Sat 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]
85 Jan 18 Fri Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Friday 18 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 18 Fri Coal: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 101(85) 3rd Meeting: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 18 Fri 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]
85 Jan 18 Fri Coal: Kinnock letter to MT (proposes energy review) ['would clearly serve the national interest'] [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 17 Thu Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 2nd (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, coal strike) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 17 Thu Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Thursday 17 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 16 Wed Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 16 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 16 Wed Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 16 Wed 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]
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 16 Wed Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Coal Industry Dispute - Early Report for 16 January”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 15 Tue Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 15 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 15 Tue Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 14 Mon Cabinet: Minutes of Ministerial Group on Coal - MISC101(85) 2nd (Industrial Action in the Coal Industry) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 14 Mon Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Monday 14 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 14 Mon Coal: Powell note to MT (Afghan financial aid to the NUM) ['I am told that the cheque was handed over by Ron Brown MP and that the Afghan Charge d'Affaires was not present'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 11 Fri Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Friday 11 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]