Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 1 November 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 1 November 1983

0845

[Ronnie Millar]

0855

Stephen Sherbourne

0900

Questions briefing team

0930

Meeting of Ministers re Power Station Endurance [Home Sec (Leon Brittan), Ch/ Ex (Nigel Lawson), Scotland (George Younger), Employment (Tom King), DTI (Norman Tebbit), Energy (Peter Walker), Defence (Michael Heseltine), RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong) + Gregson]

1030-1115

Lord Rothschild re Agricultural Research [+S/ Ed (Sir Keith Joseph), MAFF (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food), SO (Scotland Office), Ch Sec (Peter Rees), Sir Michael Franklin, Sir David Phillips]

1130-1200

Ambassador [J.J. Louis] and Mrs. Louis (America) to say goodbye

1200

Michael Alexander

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1545

Meeting with MPs - H/C

1620

Viscount Watkinson - H/C

1640

Leave H/C

1645

Meeting of Ministers re Training Commission [S of S for Education (Sir Keith Joseph), Employment (Tom King), TI (Norman Tebbit), Mr. Young [MSC] (David Young, later Lord Young, of the Manpower Services Commission), RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong)]

1800

Audience

1915

Depart

1945

Arrive Northwood - Dinner and speech +DT [& RB (Robin Butler). Speech. White tie & decs]

[Falklands dinner: see THCR 1/20/3/37] [Admiral Sir John Fieldhouse, Admiral Sir Peter Herbert, General Sir Robert Trant, Air Marshal Sir John Curtiss, Rear Admiral Peter Hammersley, Air Chief Marshal Sir John Barraclough, Commander Tony Edridge, Squadron Leader Smith, Admiral Sir William Staveley, Vice Admiral Ted Anson, Air Marshal John Fitzpatrick, Rear Admiral Sir John Woodward, Rear Admiral Huibert Propper (Royal Netherlands Navy), Rear Admiral Austin Lockyer, Air Vice Marshal George Chesworth; see THCR 6/2/2/72 f23 also for additional information about guests]

Paired all day

MT Engagement Diary