1986 Aug 4 - 1987 Oct 29
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/2352
Nationalised Industries (Coal mines) (Part 20)
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
|---|---|
| Release date: | 2016 Jul 21 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 213 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value | Title |
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| 86 Aug 14 Th | Major | Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to John MacGregor ("Objectives for New Chairman of British Coal") [draft letters to Robert Haslam; various concerns raised by MacGregor in ensuing correspondence with Walker] [released July 2016] |
| 86 Aug 26 Tu | Major | Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker minute to MT (Energy strategy) [overview; Policy Unit: "Walker has declined the invitation to involve colleagues in reviewing energy policy as a coherent whole"; power station programme] [released July 2016] |
| 86 Sep 3 We | Major | Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, George Hunter) [impromptu conversation with Vice-President of the Union of Democratic Mineworkers: concern about effect of NUM industrial action on UDM pay negotiations] [released July 2016] |
| 86 Sep 5 Fr | Major | Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker PS letter to No.10 ("British Coal: Press Conference") [pay awards; NUM members dispute over additional pension fund contributions to cover strike action; exceptions to reinstatement] [released July 2016] |
| 86 Sep 12 Fr | Major | Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with Mr. Walker") [Government response to publication of Ian MacGregor's book 'The Enemy Within'; other books in pipeline; strained relations between Departments of Energy and Environment] [released July 2016] |
| 86 Sep 15 Mo | Major | Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Peter Walker) ["The Enemy Within": Government response to publication of Ian MacGregor's book] [released July 2016] |
| 86 Sep 19 Fr | Major | Nationalised Industries: No.10 note to MT ('The Enemy Within' by Ian MacGregor) [draft statement by Peter Walker in response to publication of book] [released July 2016] |
| 86 Oct 2 Th | Major | Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to Attorney General ("1986 Coal Industry Bill") [miners welfare trusts "we must act to resolve the problems... where existing trustees appointed on behalf of the workforce are no longer representative"] [released July 2016] |
| 86 Oct 8 We | Major | Nationalised Industries: Whitelaw letter to Peter Walker ("Coal Industry Bill") [concern that Bill will be hybrid] [released July 2016] |
| 86 Oct 9 Th | Major | Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to MacGregor ("Coal Industry Bill") [Mineworkers' Pension Scheme: amendment to rules on contributions & linkage to "changes proposed to provide appropriate representation of the UDM"] [released July 2016] |
| 86 Oct 24 Fr | Major | Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Wage Bargaining for Mineworkers") ["Bob Haslam makes the case for local wage bargaining... we must not lightly dismiss the expressed preference of the UDM for national membership bargaining... On the UDM rests the security of electricity supplies... leading ultimately to privatisation"; proposed solution] [released July 2016] |
| 86 Oct 31 Fr | Major | Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker minute to MT ("UDM") ["Local pay negotiation is the complete opposite of what the UDM want"] [released July 2016] |
| 86 Nov 3 Mo | Major | Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Union of Democratic Mineworkers") [reconciling UDM's apparently conflicting needs for influence at both national and local levels] [released July 2016] |
| 86 Nov 4 Tu | Major | Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Peter Walker, Kenneth Clarke, David Hunt, Robert Haslam, John Wybrew) [developmental support for the UDM] [released July 2016] |
| 86 Nov 7 Fr | Major | Nationalised Industries: MacGregor letter to Peter Walker ("Coal Industy Bill") [British Coal: deficit grant & social grant] [released July 2016] |
| 86 Nov 7 Fr | Major | Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to MacGregor (British Coal: UDM and NUM pay settlements) [details & conditions] [released July 2016] |
| 86 Nov 12 We | Major | Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker minute to MT ("Coal Stocks at CEGB Power Stations") [status report; forecast; confirmation that target set in December 1985 has been met] [released July 2016] |
| 86 Nov 27 Th | Major | Nationalised Industries: Rifkind minute to MT ("Coal Stocks at Power Stations") [assurance that oil & nuclear generation capacity will enable Scotland to endure virtually indefinitely without coal deliveries] [released July 2016] |
| 87 Jan 22 Th | Major | Nationalised Industries: Peter Walker letter to MacGregor ("Financial Support to the Coal Industry") [British Coal proposals to reduce costs through redundancies; public expenditure costs] [released July 2016] |
| 87 Mar 6 Fr | Major | Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Energy Committee Report on the Coal Industry") [options for reforming coal industry and restoring profitability; development of a clear plan in anticipation of third Conservative term in Government] [released July 2016] |