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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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Showing items 81 - 93 of 93

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85 Feb 22 Fri Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Friday 22 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 22 Fri Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [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 25 Mon Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Monday 25 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 25 Mon Coal: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 101(85) 7th Meeting: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 26 Tue Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 26 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 26 Tue Coal: Walker letter to NUM Secretary Heathfield (response to Heathfield's question: whether NACODS agreement is available to NUM) ['this agreement was available to the NUM...[but was] rejected by the NUM'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 27 Wed Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 27 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 27 Wed Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 27 Wed 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 27 Wed Coal: Sherbourne minute to MT ("Mr. David Hart") ['I believe [Walker's] complaints about [Hart] are justified...[He] has recently been pursuing his own ends at the expense of those of the Government...[We] must consider how we sever the link with DH'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 28 Thu Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Thursday 28 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 28 Thu Coal: Walker press statement ('final offer' to NUM on negotiated settlement of coal dispute) [settlement proposed by the TUC and NCB 'will provide miners with the greatest influence they have ever had on the future of any individual colliery'] [declassified Dec 2014]