Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 5 April 1982

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/4
Editorial comments:	Taken from a typed version of the appointment diary prepared in the Garden Room following MT's resignation but before 1992. The handwritten original has also been studied and material from that source has sometimes been added in, with explicit notes to that effect. The handwritten volumes will eventually make their way to TNA.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p
Themes:	Defence (Falklands)

Monday 5 April 1982

0830

Hair

1000

Media

1005

Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Lord Carrington]

1030

Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw] and Chief Whip [Michael Jopling]

1215

Chief Whip [Michael Jopling], Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw], Chairman [Cecil Parkinson] and Lord President [Francis Pym]

1300

Lunch with colleagues [Willie Whitelaw, Sir Keith Joseph, Francis Pym, Nicholas Edwards, John Biffen, Norman Fowler, Cecil Parkinson, Michael Jopling, Ian Gow: THCR 2-6-2-99-132]

1405

Left No. 10

1430

Memorial Service for Lord Butler - Westminster Abbey

Returned to No. 10

To House of Commons for meeting of Ministers

1700

Returned to No. 10

1730

TV Interview with ITN: Glyn Matthias [followed immediately after by TV Interview with John Cole, BBC and Peter Allen, IRN - arranged late in the day and omitted therefore from diary]

1800

Archbishop of Canterbury [Robert Runcie]

1915

Meeting of Ministers - H/C

2000

Dined H/C +IG [Ian Gow]

MT Engagement Diary