Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 5 July 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 5 July 1983

0900

Questions briefing

0930

David Butler and Denis Kavanagh

1000

Mr. Raison

1015-1045

Rt. Hon. V.C. Bird, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda

1045

Chancellor [Nigel Lawson]

1145

Sir Robert Armstrong

1200

Meeting of Ministers re Members' pay [Ld President (Willie Whitelaw), Ld Chancellor (Lord Hailsham), Chief Whip (John Wakeham), LPS (John Biffen), S/ Def (Michael Heseltine), Ch/ Ex (Nigel Lawson) + RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong) & Peter Gregson]

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1545-1600

Leader of the Opposition [Michael Foot] - H/C

1600

Meet new Members - H/C

1830

Audience

Dined H/C +MA [Michael Alison]

2200

Three Line

Paired after 2200

MT Engagement Diary