1985 Jan 21 - 1985 Feb 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1579
Nationalised industries (Coal mines) (Part 16)
Document type: | File list item |
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Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
Release date: | 2014 Dec 30 |
Classification: | Secret |
Page count: | 382 |
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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 7 Th | Major | Coal: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Coal Industry Bill”) [timing of Bill introduction] [declassified 2014] |
85 Feb 7 Th | Major | Coal: AP News Wire (“Kinnock supports negotiated settlement”) [miners' strike: '[negotiation] the only basis by which a settlement could be made to stick'] [declassified Dec 2014] |
85 Feb 8 Fr | Major | Coal: Barclay minute to MT (“National Bus Company: Industrial Action”) [National Bus Company take legal action against secondary picketing: 'the first occasion on which a nationalised industry has used the new legislation'] [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 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 Feb 18 Mo | Major | 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 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 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 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 27 We | Major | 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 20 We | Major | 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] |