Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 17 December 1981

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/3
Editorial comments:	Taken from a typed version of the appointment diary prepared in the Garden Room at some point following MT's resignation. The original remained in the custody of the Cabinet Office.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Thursday 17 December 1981

0830

Hair

0915

Questions team

0945

Meeting of Ministers on British Steel/Kaiser

1045

Cabinet [Willie Whitelaw, Lord Hailsham, Lord Carrington, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Sir Keith Joseph, Francis Pym, Jim Prior, John Nott, Peter Walker, Michael Heseltine, George Younger, Nicholas Edwards, Humphrey Atkins, Patrick Jenkin, John Biffen, David Howell, Norman Fowler, Leon Brittan, Baroness Young, Nigel Lawson, Norman Tebbit, Cecil Parkinson, Michael Jopling]

1100

OD [Willie Whitelaw, Lord Carrington, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Lord Hailsham, John Nott, Humphrey Atkins]

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

1230

Egyptian Ambassador

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1530

Michael Ancram, MP, - H/C

1600

Sir Julian Ridsdale, MP - H/C

1630

Sir Y.K. Pao

1700

Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw] and Mr. Raison re David Lane's successor

1730

MISC 57 re Coal

1825

Phone call with Australian Prime Minister [Malcolm Fraser]

1830

Office Christmas Party +DT

2100

Meeting of Ministers re British Steel/Kaiser

Paired until 2000

MT Engagement Diary