Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 3 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

Thursday 3 March 1983

0830

Meeting of Ministers

0900

Questions and briefing team

0930

Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw] and Sir Robert Armstrong re chairmanship of the BBC

1000

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]

After

Meeting of Ministers re CRE Code of Conduct [Home Sec (Willie Whitelaw) & S/ Emp (Norman Tebbit)]

1130

Meeting of Ministers re Law of the Sea [Mr. Rifkind, Mr. Fifoot (FCO Legal adviser), Mr. Goodall, John Sparrow, Mrs. Jones from DOI, Tony Parsons]

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1600-1630

Lord Privy Seal [Baroness Young] and Sir Robert Armstrong re senior appointments

1630

Sir Robert Armstrong re security

1715

[Sir A. Parsons & Mr Jackling [set up by AJC (John Coles)]]

1755

Depart for H/C

1800-1900

Meeting of Ministers re Serpell - H/C [S/ Transport (David Howell), Ch/ Ex (Sir Geoffrey Howe), S/ Scot (George Younger), S/ Wales (Nicholas Edwards), S/ Emp (Norman Tebbit), Chief Sec (Leon Brittan) +RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong) & John Sparrow, Mr Mount]

1900

Vote [2 Line]

[Return to No. 10]

Supper in flat

[PM paired after 1900]

MT Engagement Diary