Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 21 April 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 21 April 1983

0830

Hair

0900

Questions briefing team

1100

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]

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1630

Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Francis Pym]

1700

David Wolfson

1715-1745

Meeting of Ministers re Social Security benefits [Ch/ Exchequer (Sir Geoffrey Howe), S/ DHSS (Norman Fowler)]

1745-1815

Sir Robert Armstrong and Peter Middleton re Senior Treasury Appointments

1815-1900

S/S Industry [Patrick Jenkin] [via MS (Michael Scholar) re BTG]

1945

Change

2030

Dinner for Chancellor Kohl – informal [DT away]

Paired all day

MT Engagement Diary