Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 12 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

Monday 12 December 1983

0830

Hair

1000-1030

Media

1045

Tom Arnold, MP

1100

Lord Thomas

1200

Chief Whip [John Wakeham]

1215

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

1300

Media lunch

1445

Meeting of Ministers re Lebanon [S/ Def (Michael Heseltine) & FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe) +Chief of Defence Staff (Field Marshal Sir Edwin Bramall)]

1630

Depart for House

1645

Tea with Mr. Speaker [Bernard Weatherill]

1715

Depart House of Commons

1730-1830

Meeting with Engineering Industries Council at Vickers House, Millbank [+AT (Andrew Turnbull)] [see THCR 6/2/2/74 f33 for list of Engineering Industries Council members]

[Return to No. 10 or House of Lords if running late]

1900 for 1930

Dinner with Conservative Women Peers and MPs - Cholmondely Room, H/L (informal) [No speech. Informal. +MA (Michael Alison) (no DT)] [Peeresses: Baroness Airey of Abingdon, Baroness Carnegy of Lour, Baroness Cox, Baroness Elles, Baroness Elliot of Harwood, Baroness Faithfull, Baroness Gardner of Parkes, Rt Hon Baroness Hornsby-Smith, Baroness Lane-Fox, Baroness Macleod of Borve, Baroness Northchurch, Baroness Pike, Baroness Platt of Writtle, Baroness Sharples, Baroness Trumpington, Baroness Vickers. Members of Parliament: Lynda Chalker, Janet Fookes, Peggy Fenner, Elaine Kellett-Bowman, Jill Knight, Ann McCurley, Rt Hon Sally Oppenheim, Elizabeth Peacock, Marion Roe, Angela Rumbold, Ann Winterton; see THCR 1/7/7 f8 also for menu]

Paired all day

MT Engagement Diary