Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 29 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 29 March 1983

0900

Questions briefing team

0930

S/S Education [Sir Keith Joseph] re ILEA

1000

Meeting of Ministers re Education Vouchers [Ch/ Ex (Sir Geoffrey Howe), S/ Emp (Norman Tebbit), S/ Env (Tom King), Ch/ Duchy (Cecil Parkinson), S/ Ed (Sir Keith Joseph), Mr Mount]

1130

S/S Employment [Norman Tebbit] re National Water Strike

1200

Backbench Committee Officers: Environment [+S/ Env (Tom King)]

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1545

Mr. Winston Churchill MP and Col. Colin Mitchell - H/C

1615

Michael Fallon and Marcus Fox MP - H/C

1715

Interview with Wall Street Journal - H/C

1830

Audience

Supper in flat

2205

Depart No. 10

2215

Arrive Grosvenor House for Metropolitan Special Branch Centenary Ball: met by Deputy Assistant Commissioner Hewitt [+DT] [Official Guests: Commissioner and Lady, Deputy Commissioner and Lady, Assistant Commissioner ‘Crime’ and Lady, Receiver of the Metropolitan Police and Lady, Director General Box 500 and Lady, Mr. T. Forbes, ACC RUC, Lord Forte and Lady, Mrs. Gilbert (widow of late DAC‘C’). Personalities Amongst Private Guests: HRH Prince Abdullah of Jordan, L. Byford, HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Rt Hon Humphrey Atkins, MP, Pete Murray: THCR 6-2-2-61 f61; see THCR 1-7-36 f19 for invitation]

2300

Say a few words [Say a very few words]

Paired after 1815

MT Engagement Diary