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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
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85 Jan 25 Fri Coal: Turnbull note to MT (Welsh Secretary attending MISC101) [will press to attend regularly in the future] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 25 Fri 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 25 Fri 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 28 Mon Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Monday 28 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 28 Mon Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 28 Mon Coal: Redwood minute to MT (NCB chairmanship) [possible candidates] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 29 Tue Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 29 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 30 Wed Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 30 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 30 Wed Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 30 Wed 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 Jan 31 Thu Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Thursday 31 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 31 Thu Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Power Station Endurance”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 31 Thu Coal: Office of the Chief Secretary letter to No.10 (“Coal Strike and Spring Supplementary Estimates”) [costs of the coal strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 1 Fri Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Friday 1 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 1 Fri Coal: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 101(85) 5th Meeting: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 4 Mon Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Monday 4 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 4 Mon Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 4 Mon Coal: Armstrong minute to Walker (sequestration of NUM assets) [Armstrong's contacts with representative of sequestrators; concern that contact will be disclosed in court proceedings; involvement of Security Services in tracing NUM assets] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 4 Mon Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Havers-Brittan-Armstrong-Steel-Hosker) ["Coal Dispute: Sequestrator's Action in Dublin": discussion of case; concern at risk of disclosure of Security Service meeting with representative of sequestrator] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 4 Mon 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]