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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 13 Wed Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 13 Wed Coal: No.10 letter to Department of Energy (“Coal Industry Bill”) [options for introduction of legislation] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 14 Thu Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Power Station Endurance”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 15 Fri Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Friday 15 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 15 Fri Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 15 Fri Coal: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 101(85) 7th Meeting: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 15 Fri Coal: Turnbull minute to MT (“Coal Industry Bill”) [disagreement between Walker and Chancellor of the Exchequer over timing and content of Bill] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 18 Mon Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Monday 18 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 18 Mon Coal: Fowler letter to Walker (“Unemployment Benefit for Redundant Miners”) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 18 Mon Coal: Department of Energy letter to HMT (“Coal Investment”) ['this is hardly the time to damage our public credibility by putting a question mark over levels of investment'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 18 Mon Coal: Henry Steel letter to Charles Powell (“NUM assets”) [sequestration of NUM assets: update on Luxembourg and Dublin proceedings] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 19 Tue Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 19 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [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]
85 Feb 19 Tue Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-TUC Representatives-Ministers and various others) [miners' strike: options for settlement of coal dispute] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 19 Tue 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 20 Wed Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 20 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 20 Wed Coal: Walker letter to MacGregor (agreed draft letter & statement following TUC meeting with MT) [HMG and NCB must make clear that 'this clarification of your original document constitutes the final wording that will be offered'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 21 Thu Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Thursday 21 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 21 Thu Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Power Station Endurance”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 21 Thu Coal: Walker statement (NCB talks with TUC Representatives; MT talks with TUC; NUM rejection of TUC-NCB proposals) ['I deplore that the generous and reasonable offers now available to miners continue to be rejected by the NUM executive'] [declassified Dec 2014]