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 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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Showing items 81 - 93 of 93
| Date | Value |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 85 Jan 28 Mo | Major | Coal: Redwood minute to MT (NCB chairmanship) [possible candidates] [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 15 Fr | Major | 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 11 Mo | Major | Coal: Turnbull minute to MT (“Colliery Review Procedure”) [Department of Energy proposals on procedure for review and closure of pits] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 21 Mo | Major | Coal: Turnbull note to MT (call from Irene McGibbon of Miners' Wives Back to Work Campaign) [concern about NCB-NUM talks: 'working miners will be sold short'] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jan 25 Fr | Major | Coal: Turnbull note to MT (Welsh Secretary attending MISC101) [will press to attend regularly in the future] [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] |
| 85 Feb 26 Tu | Major | 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 28 Th | Major | 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] |
| 85 Feb 21 Th | Major | 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] |
| 85 Feb 22 Fr | Major | 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 Jan 25 Fr | Major | 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 Jan 21 Mo | Major | Coal: Wybrew minute to Redwood (“Coal Dispute”) [statistics on striking miners and coal production: 'The picture is encouraging...'] [declassified Dec 2014] |