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1985 Dec 1 - 1986 Sep 18
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1866
Nationalised Industries (Gas and electricity policy: British Gas privatisation; Gas Bill) (Part 12)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Feb 19
Classification: Secret
Page count: 277
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85 Dec 3 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute to MT ("Gas") [meeting to discuss Treasuy/Department of Energy disagreement over import/export policy] [released Feb 2016]
85 Dec 3 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker minute to MT ("Privatisation") [response to Ridley proposals for breaking up of British Gas into smaller companies; separate accounting for subsidiary companies] [released Feb 2016]
85 Dec 4 We Major Nationalised Industries: Solicitor General letter to Peter Walker ("Privatisation of British Gas") [advice on "EEC Admission Directive of a percentage limitation on the holding by any individual or group of individuals acting in concert of shares in British Gas"] [released Feb 2016]
85 Dec 6 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Gas Industry Privatisation: Gas Imports and Exports") [Peter Walker paper for E(A) sub-committee on future policy and its presentation] [released Feb 2016]
85 Dec 6 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT ("Gas Industry Privatisation") [Peter Walker paper for E(A) sub-committee: imports & exports; Department of Energy/Treasury dispute of licence to BGC] [released Feb 2016]
85 Dec 6 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Gas Imports and Exports") [Peter Walker's key arguments; case for 'open door' policy] [released Feb 2016]
85 Dec 6 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker minute to MT ("Gas Bill") [Second Reading; protecting customers/price control system] [released Feb 2016]
85 Dec 6 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Treasury record of conversation (Nigel Lawson, Peter Walker) ["Gas Exports"] [released Feb 2016]
85 Dec 9 Mo Major Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Gas Bill: Draft Licence") [addressing need to ensure even-handed treatment of contract customers] [released Feb 2016]
85 Dec 20 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Gas Privatisation") [defensive lines to take; need for early resolution of Treasury/Department of Energy debate over imports/exports policy] [released Feb 2016]
86 Jan 14 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to John Moore ("Gas Privatisation: Special Share and Related Issues") [merits of BT-type special share] [released Feb 2016]
86 Jan 21 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to David Norgrove ("Regulation of the Gas Industry") [analysis of Commons Energy Committee report] [released Feb 2016]
86 Jan 30 Th Major Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to John MacGregor ("BGC: Manuals Pay Negotiations") ["BGC have achieved as good a settlement as we could possibly have expected"] [released Feb 2016]
86 Feb 28 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker minute to MT ("Gas Imports and Exports") [draft PQ announcement on policy] [released Feb 2016]
86 Mar 4 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Whitelaw ("Gas Bill: House of Lords") ["any extra time we can obtain between the Bill reaching Statute Book and the Offer for Sale will be of great value to the success of BGC privatisation"] [released Feb 2016]
86 Mar 5 We Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute to MT ("Gas Imports and Exports") [details of imminent Walker announcement of more liberal regime] [released Feb 2016]
86 Mar 10 Mo Major Nationalised Industries: John Moore letter to Peter Walker ("Select Committee on Energy: Report on Gas Privatisation") [proposed amendment to Walker's draft reply to Committee, to emphasise British Gas' "scope for expansion and growth in profits"] [released Feb 2016]
86 Mar 13 Th Major Nationalised Industries: John Moore letter to Peter Walker ("Gas Bill: Amendments at Report Stage") [case for accepting Energy Select Committee's proposed amendments regarding gas supply business accounts] [released Feb 2016]
86 May 9 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Brigadier J. Budd minute to Brian Unwin ("Power Workers - SitRep") [threat of industrial action over pay negotiations: "plenty of negotiating time... for a settlement"; however, MT concerned about complacency] [released Feb 2016]
86 May 12 Mo Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT ("Electricity Supply Industry Pay") [meeting with Peter Walker to discuss threat of industrial action and NCB/CEGB negotiations on coal burn/coal prices] [released Feb 2016]