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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 Feb 27 Wed Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 13 Wed Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 6 Wed Coal: Armstrong minute to MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 30 Wed Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 23 Wed Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal”) [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 Jan 25 Fri Coal: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 101(85) 4th Meeting: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 1 Fri Coal: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 101(85) 5th Meeting: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 8 Fri Coal: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 101(85) 6th Meeting: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 15 Fri Coal: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 101(85) 7th Meeting: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 25 Mon Coal: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 101(85) 7th Meeting: 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 25 Fri Coal: Redwood minute to MT (“The Coal Dispute”) [future of the coal industry and resolution of the miners' strike: 'Let’s not snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 28 Mon Coal: Redwood minute to MT (NCB chairmanship) [possible candidates] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 21 Mon Coal: Wybrew minute to Redwood (“Coal Dispute”) [statistics on striking miners and coal production: 'The picture is encouraging...'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 25 Fri Coal: Wybrew minute to MT (“Coal - Millstone or Miracle?”) [future of the coal industry: 'The immediate human costs of [re-structuring the industry] would be large, but so would the corresponding gains in competitiveness'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 22 Fri Coal: Wybrew minute to MT (“‘Plan for Coal’ - The Dangers of Wishful Thinking”) ['ill-founded optimism carries the seeds of its own destruction'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 18 Mon Coal: Fowler letter to Walker (“Unemployment Benefit for Redundant Miners”) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 19 Tue Coal: Media transcripts ("Prime Minister's Meeting with TUC Monitoring Group: 19 February 1985") [Walker and Willis statements to the media] [declassified Dec 2014]