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1985 Mar 1 - 1985 May 31
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

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

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 372
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85 Apr 26 Fri Coal: No.10 letter to Department of Energy (“Coal Industry”) [issues requiring consideration: power station stocks and endurance, pit closures and redundancies, open cast mining, structure of the coal industry, NCB Executive] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 3 Fri Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 8 Wed Coal: NCB press release (“No Closures Outside Colliery Review Procedure”) ['NCB’s Assurance to Unions'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 8 Wed Coal: Turnbull note to MT (Walker’s criticisms of MacGregor) ['three serious accusations' against MacGregor; Turnbull will set up meetings; MT: 'Thank you it's urgent'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 8 Wed Coal: Addison minute to MT (NCB’s response to intimidation reports) [NCB response to complaint of intimidation 'adopts a rather tough tone'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 9 Thu Coal: Walker minute to MT (situation at the NCB: concerns about MacGregor's performance) [Walker's 'very real concern at what is happening at the National Coal Board at present'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 10 Fri Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 10 Fri Coal: Turnbull minute to MT (“Meeting with Mr. MacGregor”) [brief for meeting: closures, colliery review procedure, NACODS, NCB executive, open-cast mining, treatment of working miners] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 10 Fri Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker) [“National Coal Board”: Walker's concerns about MacGregor's performance] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 10 Fri Coal: King minute to MT (“Revision of the NUM Rule Book”) ['proposed changes have been designed with the union’s experience in the strike very much in mind'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 13 Mon Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-MacGregor) [NCB support and policy towards intimidation of working miners] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 13 Mon Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-MacGregor) ["Meeting with Mr MacGregor": pit closures and redundancies; NACODS and colliery closure review procedure; NCB management; NCB publicity and NACODS; coal movements; open-cast mining; working miners] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 15 Wed Coal: Wybrew minute to Turnbull ("Coal") [redundancies in the coal industry] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 15 Wed Coal: Lawson letter to Walker (“The Customs and CEGB Oil Imports”) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 16 Thu Coal: Butler letter to MacGregor (intimidation of working miners) ['[MT] thinks it essential that the Board should stand by these employees'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 20 Mon Coal: Turnbull minute to MT (“Coal Industry”) [coal stocks, power station endurance, and pit closures and redundancies] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 20 Mon Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Coal Industry”) [power station stocks and endurance, pit closures, opencast mining, structure of the coal industry, NCB executive] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 20 Mon Coal: Official Group on Coal (MISC 57) report (“Lessons of the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike”) [MT: 'We shall meet to discuss'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 21 Tue Coal: Armstrong minute to Butler (opencast mining consents) [transfer of planning powers from Department of Energy to Department of Environment] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 21 Tue Coal: No.10 letter to HMT (“Coal Industry”) [copy of meeting records and minutes concerning MacGregor's performance as NCB Chairman] [declassified Dec 2014]