Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 26 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

Tuesday 26 April 1983

0900

Questions briefing team

0930-1000

Mr. Goodall and Mr. Jackling to discuss draft defence White Paper

1000

Keep free for Cutlers Feast speech [see THCR 5/1/5/199 part 1 f108 for notes on Sheffield from Peter Middleton to Michael Scholar]

1115

Sir Robin Ibbs

1130

S/S Industry [Patrick Jenkin] + Mr. Baker re Alvey

1200-1230

Meeting of Ministers re British Steel Senior Management [Ch/ Ex (Sir Geoffrey Howe), S/ Industry (Patrick Jenkin) & RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong]

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1615

S/S Energy [Nigel Lawson] and Mr. Lamont [re Cutlers Feast]

1645

S/S Energy [Nigel Lawson], Mr. Lamont +S/S Trade [Lord Cockfield]

1750

Depart for Carlton Club: met by Lord Mowbray and Lord Home +IG [Ian Gow]

1800-1845

Look in at Primrose League Reception [+IG (Ian Gow)]

1900

Meeting of Ministers re POEU industrial action [S/ Industry (Patrick Jenkin), Min/ Ind, S/ Emp (Norman Tebbit), Ch/ Ex (Sir Geoffrey Howe), RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong) +Home Sec (Willie Whitelaw), +MS (Michael Scholar)]

1945

Supper in flat [Working]

2200

[3 Line: VOTE]

2210

[Chairman (Cecil Parkinson)]

Paired after 2200

MT Engagement Diary