Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 14 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

Wednesday 14 December 1983

0900

High Commissioner for Mauritius

1000

Meeting of Ministers (simplifying tax legislation) [Lord Chancellor (Lord Hailsham), Lord Privy Seal (John Biffen), Chancellor of the Duchy (Lord Cockfield), Chief Secretary (Peter Rees), First Parliamentary Counsel (Sir George Engle) and Mr. Graham (Parliamentary Council)]

1100

Meeting of Ministers (intrusion of military aircraft) [Rules of Engagement. FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe), S/ Defence (Michael Heseltine), RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong)]

Secretary of State for Defence [Michael Heseltine] re cost of defence equipment

1215

Talks

1300

Lunch for President Gemayel

1500

OD(D) re arms control

1600

Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

1630

Angolan Minister of Planning

1700

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson]

1730

Sir Alan Walters

[To H/C]

1830

Meeting of Ministers re local government in Liverpool [S/S Def (Michael Heseltine), DHSS (Norman Fowler), DES (Sir Keith Joseph), DOE (Patrick Jenkin), HO (Leon Brittan), DTI (Norman Tebbit), Sol Gen (Sir Patrick Mayhew), Chef Secretary (Peter Rees), RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong)]

1900

Look in at Lord Buxton's Reception +DT, BI [Bernard Ingham] - H/L [+DT (if he can make it)]

Return to No. 10

2000

Working supper with Sir Anthony Parsons

[PM paired all day except between 1815 & 1945]

MT Engagement Diary