Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 1 February 1983

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/5
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 are now being deposited at TNA in the series PREM32; PREM32/17 is the manuscript version of the diary, PREM32/5 the typed one.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Tuesday 1 February 1983

0830

Dr. Henderson

0900

Questions briefing team

0930

John Sparrow

1000

Sir Henry Plumb (re general and Euro elections)

1030

E(NI)

1155

Chief Whip [Michael Jopling]

1200

Backbench Committee Officers re urban and new towns + S/S Environment [Tom King] [Anthony Steen (chairman), Christopher Murphy & John Wheeler (vice-chairmen), Den Dover & David Bevan (hon secs); Ian Gow - THCR 2/6/2/15 part 5 f52; Tom King in fact absent]

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1600

OD/EM - H/C

1700

Meeting of Ministers re defence and public expenditure - H/C [Home Sec (Willie Whitelaw), Ch/Ex (Sir Geoffrey Howe), S/Defence (Michael Heseltine), Chief Sec (Leon Brittan) & RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong), RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong) + John Sparrow]

1800

Meeting of Ministers re overseas students fees - H/C [FCS (Francis Pym), S/ Defence (Michael Heseltine), S/Trade (Lord Cockfield), Chief Sec (Leon Brittan), S/ Ind (Patrick Jenkin), S/ Ed (Sir Keith Joseph)]

1900

Lord Weinstock - H/C [see THCR 6/2/2/56 f5]

Dined H/C +IG [Ian Gow]

Running three line until

0100

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