Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 29 June 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

Wednesday 29 June 1983

0900

John Hayes (messenger) to bid farewell

0915

Diary Meeting

1015

Meeting of Ministers re unemployment [Ch/ Duchy (Lord Cockfield), S/ Ed (Sir Keith Joseph), Ch/ Ex (Nigel Lawson), S/ Emp (Norman Tebbit), S/Trade & Industry (Cecil Parkinson), Min D/ En, AW (Alan Walters) & FM (Ferdie Mount)]

1100

E(A)

1145-1245

Meeting of Ministers re GCHQ Project [FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe), S/ Def (Michael Heseltine), Ch/ Ex (Nigel Lawson), Sir A. Acland, Sir Clive Whitmore, Peter Middleton, RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong), Sir A. Duff, Sir B. Tovey]

Lunch in flat

1400

Mr. Redwood via Mr. Mount

1420

S/S Social Services [Norman Fowler], Minister of State Social Services [Rhodes Boyson], Mrs. Poole and Michael Scholar

1430

Meeting with Royal College of Nursing

1530

Sir Anthony Parsons and AJC (John Coles) [According to handwritten original, MT was to have gone to the House of Commons to sit in on a debate at 1530. It seems likely that this did not happen.]

1615

Mr. Letwyn [sic: Letwin] via Mr. Mount

1700

Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

1730

[Lord President (Willie Whitelaw) & Chief Whip (John Wakeham) [Re Honours]]

1800

[LPS (John Biffen) [MP’s pay]]

1830-2000

Reception for constituents +DT

Supper in flat

2100

Wind-ups

2200

Three Line

Return to No. 10 to change

2300

Look in at Blue Ball +MA [Michael Alison] - Hurlingham Club [DT away]

MT Engagement Diary