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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 5 Tu Major Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 5 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 5 Tu Major Coal: Henry Steel letter to Butler (“NUM: Sequestrators”) [update on proceedings in Dublin; concern about disclosure of HMG and Security Service meeting with representative of sequestrators] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 6 We Major Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 6 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 6 We Major Coal: Armstrong minute to MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
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: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Thursday 7 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 7 Th Major Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Power Station Endurance”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [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: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Friday 8 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 8 Fr Major Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 8 Fr Major Coal: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 101(85) 6th Meeting: Coal”) [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: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Monday 11 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [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 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 12 Tu Major Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 12 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 13 We Major Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 13 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]