Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 7 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

Monday 7 February 1983

0800

Hair

0930

Meeting on water strike [[S/ Scotland (George Younger) away] [S/ NI (Jim Prior) away] John McKay will attend]

1000-1030

Media

1030

Chairman [Cecil Parkinson], David Wolfson and Ian Gow re General Election [THCR 6/1/2A/3 indicates that contingency prepared for this meeting, a ‘Guard of Honour in FCO Quadrangle for King Hassan’, or a Plenary Session at 1145]

1200

Chief Whip [Michael Jopling] [THCR 6/1/2A/3 indicates that contingency prepared for this meeting or for a ‘Tete a tete with King Hassan’ at 1215]

1215

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

1300

Lunch for colleagues [THCR 6/1/2A/3 indicates that contingency prepared for this meeting or for a ‘Lunch for Arab Delegation’ at 1300 for 1315]

1430-1500

Meeting of Ministers re imports of milk [FCS (Francis Pym), Min Ag (Peter Walker), S/ Trade (Lord Cockfield), Solicitor General (Sir Ian Percival), Chief Secretary (Leon Brittan), D. Hancock]

1500

Chief Secretary [Leon Brittan]

1530

[OD or OD(FAF)] [THCR 6/1/2A/3]

1600

S/S Environment [Tom King] re rates

1700-1800

John Selwyn Gummer and Ferdie Mount for YC speech

1845 onwards

Look in at Christopher Murphy's dinner - Welwyn and Hatfield Conservative Association - H/C

Supper in flat

2200-2300

Winter Ball +IG [Ian Gow] - Park Lane Entrance, Grosvenor House.

[PM paired all day]

MT Engagement Diary