1987 Nov 4 - 1990 Jun 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/3097
Nationalised Industries (Coal mines) (Part 21)
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
|---|---|
| Release date: | 2016 Dec 30 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 321 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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Showing items 21 - 40 of 45
| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 89 Sep 7 Th | Major | Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Paul Gray ("Coal Liberalisation") [tonnage & manning proposals] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Sep 12 Tu | Major | Nationalised Industries: Wakeham minute to MT ("Coal Industry Industrial Relations") ["significant" chance of winter industrial action owing to pit closure implications of electricity privatisation, to NUM & NACODS pay disputes, and to proposed legislative reform affecting NACODS pit deputies] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Oct 19 Th | Major | Nationalised Industries: Wakeham PS letter to No.10 (coal stocks) [CEGB response to MT query about possibility of increase] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Oct 25 We | Major | Nationalised Industries: Wakeham letter to Lamont ("British Coal: Mineworkers' Pay") [proposed respective deals for UDM, NUM and NACODS] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Oct 26 Th | Major | Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("British Coal") [need to ensure collective approval for policy proposals contained in Coal Bill] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Oct 30 Mo | Major | Nationalised Industries: Privy Council Office record of conversation ("British Coal") [Howe, Wakeham, Renton, Spicer] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Nov 7 Tu | Major | Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Paul Gray ("Coal Bill - Licensing Provision") ["[Howe proposal] to frustrate the raising of statutory limits on licensed mining... would be a grave mistake"] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Nov 23 Th | Major | Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Paul Gray ("Coal Bill") [endorses Chris Patten proposal "requiring British Coal tp reserve a fraction of its current operating costs for future site reclamation"] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Nov 24 Fr | Major | Nationalised Industries: Wakeham minute to MT ("Coal Contracts") [details of British Coal/Generators 3-year interim agreement; implications for flotation of Elictricity Suppy Industry and for British Coal] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Nov 27 Mo | Major | Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Coal Contracts") [details of British Coal/Generators interim agreement; analysis of negotiations; future negotiations; "Endorse John Wakeham's package as being a good interim solution"] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Nov 29 We | Major | Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Wakeham ("Coal Contracts") [need for British Coal to base investment plans on realistic assumptions; affect on BC of generators' future efforts to reduce emissions of sulphur oxide; controlling costs; further financial assistance to BC; transparent pricing of output from individual pits/coalfields] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Nov 29 We | Major | Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT ("Coal Contracts") [British Coal/electricity generators: proposed 3-year interim agreement & Treasury concerns; pit closures; British Coal finances; timing of announcement of the agreement] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Nov 30 Th | Major | Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Major, Wakeham) ["Coal Contracts": British Coal/electricity generators - proposed 3-year interim agreement & Treasury concerns; pit closures; British Coal finances; timing of announcement of the agreement] [released Dec 2016] |
| 89 Nov 30 Th | Major | Nationalised Industries: Rifkind minute to MT ("Coal Contracts") [significance of British Coal/England & Wales Generators 3-year interim agreement for Scotland; case against closure of Longannet mine; coal prices] [released Dec 2016] |
| 90 Jan 17 We | Minor | Nationalised Industries: Wakeham PS letter to No.10 ("Coal and Power Station Statistics") [review of reporting requirements in anticipation of privatisation] [released Dec 2016] |
| 90 Mar 26 Mo | Major | Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute to MT ("Colliery Closures") [probable need for change in Independent Review Body procedures, despite MT's reluctance: meeting to discuss; appointment of new British Coal Chair; handling of pit closures] [released Dec 2016] |
| 90 Mar 26 Mo | Major | Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute to MT ("Colliery Closures: Independent Review Body") [options for reviewing/agreeing need for closures] [released Dec 2016] |
| 90 Mar 30 Fr | Major | Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT ("Colliery Closures") [summary of briefing notes & key issues] [released Dec 2016] |
| 90 Mar 30 Fr | Major | Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Colliery Closures") ["the Coal Board is having to confront market reality... The pits have to be closed... the present issue is not the kind of problem for which the... [Independent Review Body] was established"] [released Dec 2016] |
| 90 Apr 2 Mo | Major | Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Major, Wakeham, Walker, Ridley, Howard, George Guise, Richard Wilson) ["Colliery Closures: Independent Review Body": agreement that exisiting review procedure should ideally be maintained despite British Coal management's resistance; MT willing to discuss directly with Chair of BC] [released Dec 2016] |