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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1865
Nationalised Industries (Coal mines) (Part 19)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2015 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 341
Any docs withheld? 1
Themes: Privatized & state industries, Public spending & borrowing, 1984-85 coal strike

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Date Value Title
85 Dec 2 Mo Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute to Peter Walker PS ("Second Report on Lessons of the Miners' Strike") [MT's preliminary questions pending her full response] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 10 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Power Station Endurance") [requisite coal stocks for withstanding industrial action during winter of 1986/87; issues arising from Second Report on Lessons of the Miners' Strike; recovery of additonal costs through higher electricity prices] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 12 Th Major Nationalised Industries: Leon Brittan letter to Peter Walker ("Lessons of the Miners Strike: Intimidation") [moral & pragmatic arguments for Government support for victimised workers] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 12 Th Major Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker minute to MT ("Coal Stocks at CEGB Power Stations") [status report on industrial relations, coal production/pit closures, coal stocks, and ESI finances in advance of meeting with MT] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 13 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Coal Stocks at CEGB Power Stations") [advises no need for Ministerial meeting to go ahead, in light of advice from Peter Walker and Treasury agreement with Walker's advice] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 13 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT ("Coal") [Peter Walker & Treasury inclined to cancel scheduled Ministerial meeting on stocks/endurance, but MT wants meeting to go ahead & notes questions she will raise at the meeting] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 13 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Coal Stocks at CEGB Power Stations") [endorses Peter Walker's proposals; suggests Ministerial meeting go ahead, in order to discuss report on lessons from the coal strike] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 17 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT ("Coal") [lessons from strike: multi-issue ballots; local authority financial assistance to strikers & their families; redundant mineworkers payment scheme] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 18 We Major Nationalised Industries: Department of Energy briefing for MT ("Lessons of the Miners' Strike: Pit Closures") ["rate of pit closures since the strike, compared with what would have happened if there had been no strike"] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 19 Th Major Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Coalminers' Pay Negotiations") [report on terms of NCB offer to NUM and its reception by NUM] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 19 Th Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Peter Walker, Hurd, Tebbit) ["Second Report on Lessons of the Miners' Strike"] [released Dec 2015]
85 Dec 20 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Second Report on Lessons of the Miners' Strike") [MT queries in regard to multi-issue ballots and to local authority financial assistance to strikers & their families] [released Dec 2015]
86 Jan 29 We Major Nationalised Industries: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Second Report on Lessons of the Miners' Strike") ["role of magistrates' courts in the dispute"] [released Dec 2015]
86 Jan 29 We Major Nationalised Industries: Waldegrave letter to David Hunt MP ("Underground Fire at Oakthorpe, Leicestershire") [emergency financial aid to local authority; liability; insurance] [released Dec 2015]
86 Feb 5 We Major Nationalised Industries: Kenneth Clarke PS letter to Cabinet Office ("Second Report on Lessons of the Miners' Strike") [multi-issue ballots: possibilities for further legislation] [released Dec 2015]
86 Feb 14 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 note to MT (Energy Prices) ["effect of lower oil prices on the NCB and CEGB this year and next"] [released Dec 2015]
86 Feb 19 We Major Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Peter Walker ("NCB's Business Name") [proposed name change to 'British Coal'] [released Dec 2015]
86 Mar 10 Mo Major Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker minute to MT ("Coal Stocks at CEGB Power Stations") [estimates for spring & autumn 1986; weekly coal & power station statistics: Dec 1985 - June 1986] [released Dec 2015]
86 Mar 18 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to John MacGegor ("Redundant Mineworkers' Payments Scheme") ["The treatment of accumulated liabilities on RMPS and Social Costs is a matter we will need to settle for the Coal Industry Bill"] [released Dec 2015]
86 May 7 We Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute to MT ("Ian MacGregor's Autobiography") [meetings between MT & MacGregor] [released Dec 2015]