Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 31 October 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

Monday 31 October 1983

0800

Hair

0945

OD(EM)

1100

World Leadership of Soviet Jewry delegation

1100-1130

Sir Robert Armstrong and Mr. Gregson to brief for meeting about power station endurance

1130-1145

Cameroonian Foreign Minister

1200

Chief Whip [John Wakeham]

1215

Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen] and Chairman [John Gummer]

1240

Depart

1300

Lunch with IBA - 70 Brompton Road

1500

Meeting of Ministers re political contributions - H/C [(S of S for Emp (Tom King), TI (Norman Tebbit), Mr Gummer)]

Defence debate - H/C

1700-1730

Alfred Sherman and Ian Gow - H/C

1745

Depart

1800-1830

Reception at Buckingham Palace for Community Service Volunteers [(no hat)]

[Handwritten original indicates that between 1800 and 2000, MT was to have looked in at No. 10 for farewell drinks for Ian Kydd, but this may not have happened.]

2110

Edward du Cann - H/C

[Keep free for Northwood speech]

[paired after 10 pm]

MT Engagement Diary