Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 3 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

Thursday 3 February 1983

0800

Hair

0830

Meeting on water strike

0900

Questions briefing

0945

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

1030

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

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1545

Meeting of Ministers re Telecommunications Bill [Home Sec (Willie Whitelaw), FCS (Francis Pym), S/ Ind (Patrick Jenkin), Mr. Baker, RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong) + officials]

1600

[S/Employment (Norman Tebbit)] [THCR 6/1/2A/3]

1630-1800

Briefing meeting for German bilaterals

1800-1830

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Giles Shaw and Sir Phillip Harrap [sic: Peter Harrop] re Sir Frank Price [see THCR 1/3/10 f142]

1830

S/S Employment [Norman Tebbit] re unemployment presentation and the MSC

2040

Left for Chequers

[PM paired all day] [THCR 6/1/2A/3]

MT Engagement Diary