Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 8 December 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 8 December 1983

0900

Questions briefing team

0945

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson]

1030

Cabinet [Viscount Whitelaw, Lord Hailsham, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Leon Brittan, Nigel Lawson, Sir Keith Joseph, Jim Prior, Peter Walker, Michael Heseltine, George Younger, Nicholas Edwards, Patrick Jenkin, John Biffen, Norman Fowler, Norman Tebbit, Lord Cockfield, Tom King, Michael Jopling, Peter Rees, Nicholas Ridley, John Wakeham]

1200

S/S Trade and Industry [Norman Tebbit]

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1600

Geoffrey Finsberg MP re GLC - H/C

1645

Sean Hughes, MP, re closures - H/C [+DTI Minister David Trippier & Energy Minister Giles Shaw]

1715

Return to No. 10

1730

US Treasury Secretary, Donald Regan

1830

Reception for Party Treasurers +DT [via Oulton Wade] [see THCR 2/6/3/92 part 1 f8 for full list of attendees]

To House of Commons

1900

Vote [2 Line]