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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1580
Nationalised industries (Coal mines) (Part 17)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 372

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Date Value Title
85 Mar 28 Th Major Coal: Butler minute to Armstrong (transfer of responsibility for mining planning consents from Department of Energy to Department of Environment) [transfer of responsibility 'causing considerable difficulty and delay'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 29 Fr Major Coal: Wybrew minute to MT (“Coal Industry Bill”) ['There is no excuse for an organisation with the resources of the NCB to emerge from a prolonged strike without clearly defined objectives'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 31 Su Major Coal: MacGregor letter to miners (end of the miners' strike) ['every effort must be made to restore harmony within the industry'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 31 Su Major Coal: Walker minute to MT (NUM Yorkshire Area annual report for 1984) ['illustrates fairly clearly the attitudes and present thinking of the NUM at Area level'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 2 Tu Major Coal: Butler note for the record (points made by working miners at working miners’ dinner) ['Some managers, out of a desire to conciliate the militants, were failing to protect the working miners'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 4 Th Major Coal: MT letter to Mrs Hackett, wife of working miner (condemns intimidation of working miners) ['The miners who stood up for their right to work were defending a fundamental privilege of a free people'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 9 Tu Major Coal: Walker minute to MT (“Coal Industry Bill and Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme”) [eligibility of striking miners for pensions accrued during periods on strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 11 Th Major Coal: NCB press release (“Discussions on Modified Colliery Review Procedure”) ['NCB and unions agree to joint sub-committee to discuss colliery review procedure] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 11 Th Major Coal: Biffen letter to Walker (“Coal Industry Bill”) [Walker's proposed additional provisions; Biffen urges further consideration and time for discussion] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 12 Fr Major Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 12 Fr Major Coal: Wybrew minute to MT (“Coal Industry Bill and Mineworkers’ Pension Bill”) [recommends against amending mineworkers' pension entitlement in Bill: 'The big prize is still a restructured coal industry...The Luddites should be given no ammunition to hinder that process'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 13 Sa Major Coal: NCB press release (“Coal Board Take Action on Intimidation”) ['Our management will not tolerate any intimidation of individual workmen or groups of employees'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 15 Mo Major Coal: Walker letter to Lawson (“Coal Industry Bill”) [need 'to present the Bill as a financial framework within which we expect the Board to work'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 15 Mo Major Coal: Ingham minute to MT (“The Trade Union Centenary”) [public opinion on miners' strike; Ingham considers it unwise 'to rub the NUM’s nose in it [i.e. their defeat]'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 17 We Major Coal: Walker minute to MT (opencast mining) [transfer of responsibility for licences for opencast mining from Department of Energy to Department of Environment] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 22 Mo Major Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 23 Tu Major Coal: Walker letter to Lawson (“Coal Industry Bill”) [budgetary planning for the coal industry: 'we will need to give a public indication of our financial expectations'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 23 Tu Major Coal: Walker minute to MT (“Coal Stock Re-Build at CEGB Power Stations”) [latest data] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 24 We Major Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker) ["Coal Issues": power station stocks, future of the NCB, pit closures; NUM rules] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Apr 25 Th Major Coal: Department of Energy press notice (“Coal Industry Bill Published”) [declassified Dec 2014]