Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 5 May 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 5 May 1983

0715

[Rehearsal]

0830

Hair

0900

Questions briefing team

0915

Meeting of Ministers re MPs' pay [Ch/ Ex (Sir Geoffrey Howe), S/ Defence (Michael Heseltine), S/ DHSS (Norman Fowler), Ld President (John Biffen), S/ Emp (Norman Tebbit), Lord Chancellor (Lord Hailsham), RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong) & Peter Gregson]

1015

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]

1115

E(LF)

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1545

Mr. Denis Bustard to present glass engraving + Sir William van Straubenzee MP - H/C

1615

Sir R. Millar and Mr. Shrimsley - H/C

1645

Meeting - H/C [Continuation of 0915 meeting]

1645

[E(LF) Do not type on anyone’s inc. PM]

1800

Change

1830-2000

Reception for NSPCC +DT

1850

Meet HRH The Princess Margaret and Lord Napier at Front Door [& Mrs Stevens]

Supper in flat

2130

Mr. E. du Cann

MT Engagement Diary

Thursday 5 May 1983

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