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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 23 Tu Major Coal: Walker minute to MT (“Coal Stock Re-Build at CEGB Power Stations”) [latest data] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 May 24 Fr Major Coal: Walker minute to MT (MacGregor's approach to NACODS) [MT: 'We cannot let this go on'] [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 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 May 9 Th Major 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 21 Tu Major Coal: Woodrow Wyatt letter to MT (harassment of working miners) ['Attached is a list of young men in Yorkshire who are being badly harassed and having their lives made impossible because they worked during the strike'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 8 Fr Major Coal: Wybrew minute to MT (“Coal Dispute - Endurance, and New Colliery Review Procedure”) ['We are now in a unique position to succeed'] [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 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 May 15 We Major Coal: Wybrew minute to Turnbull ("Coal") [redundancies in the coal industry] [declassified Dec 2014]