Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 24 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 24 March 1983

0900

Questions briefing team

0930

Keep free for statement

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]

Afterwards

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1530

Statement [cancelled for some reason??]

1630-1730

Meeting of Ministers re Alvey Report [S/ Trade (Lord Cockfield), S/ Ind (Patrick Jenkin), Chief Sec (Leon Brittan) & Dr. Nicholson, Kenneth Baker, S/S Energy (Nigel Lawson)] [Mr. MacGregor Appointment NCB]

1800-1900

Meeting of Ministers re oil prices [Mr. Hurd & Mr. Evans, Ch/ Ex (Sir Geoffrey Howe), S/ Energy (Nigel Lawson), S/ Trade (Lord Cockfield), S/ Ind (Patrick Jenkin) + 1 official each; RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong) & John Sparrow + Professor Walters]

1900

[Change]

2000

Depart No. 10

2010

Arrive Claridges

2030

State Banquet +DT by President and Mrs. Kaunda [Evening dress & decorations]

[Speeches by Her Majesty The Queen and President Kaunda; see THCR 1/10/48 f22 for seating chart and additional information]

[PM paired all day]

MT Engagement Diary