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PREM19/1581
Nationalised industries (Coal mines) (Part 18)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 375
Themes: Law & order, Energy, Privatized & state industries, 1984-85 coal strike

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Date Value Title
85 Aug 19 Mo Major Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Aug 27 Tu Major Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 2 Mo Major Coal: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Strategy for the Coal Industry”) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 5 Th Major Coal: Policy Unit minute to MT (“Strategy for the Coal Industry”) [comment on Chancellor of the Exchequer's strategy proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 9 Mo Major Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 11 We Major Coal: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Walker (“National Coal Board: Sir Robert Haslam's Salary”) ['in the last resort and to secure the appointment, I would accept the need for you to go up to £150,000'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 12 Th Major Coal: Turnbull minute to Hatfield (copy of legal advice provided to Scargill by Seifert Sedley Williams solicitors) ['I am not sure how interesting the [advice] letter is, or indeed whether it is genuine'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 13 Fr Major Coal: Wicks minute to MT ("Strategy for the Coal Industry") [suggested procedure for carrying forward Chancellor of the Exchequer's strategy proposals 'even if Mr. Walker did not back them'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 16 Mo Major Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 20 Fr Major Coal: Norgrove minute to MT ("Notts Miners") [members of NCB Executive wish to formally recognise breakaway union; risk of NUM legal action] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 23 Mo Major Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 23 Mo Major Coal: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Structure of the Coal Industry - Meeting with Peter Walker") [brief for meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 25 We Major Coal: Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("Coal") [strategy for the coal industry: further material for MT meeting with Walker] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 27 Fr Major Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 3 Th Major Coal: Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("Coal - Notts Break-Away Movement") ['favourable developments' imminent] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 4 Fr Major Coal: AP wire report ("Miners Cannot Buy Pit") ['the National Coal Board said today it had told 25 Yorkshire Miners that they cannot buy their pit when it closes at the end of December'; Norgrove annotation: 'Another PR triumph for the Coal Board'] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 4 Fr Major Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 7 Mo Major Coal: No.10 letter to Department of Energy ("Emley Moor Drift Mine") [requests urgent investigation of report that NCB has told miners that they cannot buy their pit] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 8 Tu Major Coal: Walker minute to MT ("Restocking of CEGB Power Stations") [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 11 Fr Major Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal Power Station Statistics”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]