1985 Jan 21 - 1985 Feb 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1579
Nationalised industries (Coal mines) (Part 16)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2014 Dec 30 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 382 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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Showing items 21 - 40 of 93
| Date | Value |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 85 Jan 25 Fr | Major | Coal: No.10 Duty Clerk note to Turnbull (views of “Miners’ Wives Back to Work Campaign” on NUM-NCB talks) ['there should not be a rushed settlement'] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Feb 11 Mo | Major | Coal: No.10 Duty Clerk note to MT (breakdown of NUM-NCB talks) [NUM seek establishment of Committee of Inquiry] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 25 Fr | Major | Coal: NCB representative Spanton letter to NUM Secretary Heathfield (miners' strike: NUM-NCB negotiations) ['essential to draft the parameters of the discussion at an informal meeting'] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 21 Mo | Major | Coal: NCB record of conversation (NCB-NUM Representatives) [miners' strike: NCB and NUM consider potential resumption of discussions] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 22 Tu | Major | Coal: NCB press release (“‘Think Again’ Call to Miners Leaders”) ['we do not want another round of talks in which the NUM yet again persist with their one impossible demand'] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Feb 4 Mo | Major | Coal: MT letter to Pauline Linton of Miners' Wives Back to Work Campaign (miners' strike: NCB-NUM talks) [MT addressing Linton's concerns: 'there can be no fudging of the central issue, and no betrayal of the working miners'] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Feb 27 We | Major | Coal: MT letter to Jack Peel (prospects of settlement in miners' strike) [settlement 'not within our reach, unless there is a change of heart in the NUM Executive'] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Feb 19 Tu | Major | Coal: Media transcripts ("Prime Minister's Meeting with TUC Monitoring Group: 19 February 1985") [Walker and Willis statements to the media] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Feb 6 We | Major | Coal: Jack Peel letter to MT (comments on the miners' strike and Scargill's position) ['busy organising his own survival'] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Feb 19 Tu | Major | Coal: Ingham minute to MT ("Coal Talks - Presentation") [media guidance following MT talks with TUC: 'you want a settlement...but any agreement must deal clearly and unambigously with the central point of dispute'] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Feb 8 Fr | Major | Coal: HMT letter to Department of Energy (“Coal Investment”) [previously announced £3 billion investment in NCB over four years 'may now have to last a lot longer than four years'] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Feb 11 Mo | Major | Coal: Henry Steel letter to Charles Powell (“NUM Assets: Proceedings in Luxembourg”) [sequestration of NUM assets: report on legal proceedings in Luxembourg] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Feb 18 Mo | Major | Coal: Henry Steel letter to Charles Powell (“NUM assets”) [sequestration of NUM assets: update on Luxembourg and Dublin proceedings] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Feb 5 Tu | Major | Coal: Henry Steel letter to Butler (“NUM: Sequestrators”) [update on proceedings in Dublin; concern about disclosure of HMG and Security Service meeting with representative of sequestrators] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 21 Mo | Major | Coal: Hatfield minute to Butler (reports on the strike: follow-up actions) ['I can confirm that those responsible for producing these reports are well seized of the need to be alert to the opportunities for follow-up action'] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 30 We | Major | Coal: Gregson note to MT (“Tests to be applied to a proposed settlement of the coal dispute”) [points to be conceded, secured and rejected] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Feb 18 Mo | Major | Coal: Fowler letter to Walker (“Unemployment Benefit for Redundant Miners”) [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 24 Th | Major | Coal: FCO letter to Charles Powell (“Sequestrators’ Action”) [sequestration of NUM funds: interference by the Luxembourg Government] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 25 Fr | Major | Coal: FCO letter to Charles Powell (“Luxembourg: NUM Receivership”) [talks with Luxembourg Ambassador over apparent Luxembourg intervention in sequestration of NUM funds: 'the [Luxembourg] government’s concern was not to intervene politically'] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 21 Mo | Major | Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014] |