Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 1 March 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 March 1983

0900

Questions briefing team

0930

David Young for general chat

1015-1030

Photocall with S/S Industry [Patrick Jenkin] and Austin Rover Chairman for “Maestro” car outside No. 10

1100-1130

Henry Grunwald of Time Magazine [+Ian Kydd]

1200

Chairman and Officers of Defence Backbench Committee [+S/ Defence (Michael Heseltine)]

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1600

Sit in on opening of Boundary Commission Debate - H/C

1630-1730

Delegation of National Pensioners Convention - H/C [via T.F. (Tim Flesher)]

1800-1930

Meeting with European Democratic Group

1945

Dinner with Sir Frederic Bennett and 18 MPs from Council of Europe +DT – Hispaniola [+Ian Gow. Informal] [Lord Belstead, Lord and Lady Duncan-Sandys, Lord Reay, David Atkinson, Sir Frederic and Lady Bennett, Tony Durant, Sir Russell Fairgrieve, Sir Anthony Grant, Percy Grieve, Sir Paul Hawkins, James Hill, Ralph Howell, Toby Jessel, Mrs. Jill Knight, John Osborn, Jack Page, Sir Dudley Smith, Keith Stainton, John Wilkinson: THCR 6/2/2/59 f7]

MT Engagement Diary