Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 20 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

Tuesday 20 December 1983

0900

Questions briefing team

1000

Sir John Greenborough re Nurses Pay Review Body

1030

Meeting of Ministers (NTC) [S/ Env (Patrick Jenkin), S/ DTI (Norman Tebbit), S/ DES (Sir Keith Joseph), S/ Emp (Tom King), Ch/ Ex (Nigel Lawson), Chief Secretary (Peter Rees), S/ Wales (Nicholas Edwards), S/ Scotland (George Younger), David Young, RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong), Solicitor General (Sir Patrick Mayhew), Lord Advocate (Kenneth Cameron, later Lord Cameron of Lochbroom)]

1145

Meeting of Ministers (NI) [S/NIO (Jim Prior), FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe), S/ HO (Leon Brittan), Chief Whip (John Wakeham), LPS (John Biffen), Attorney General (Sir Michael Havers), RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong), Goodall]

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1545

Robert Adley MP - H/C

1600

Meeting with MPs - H/C

1630

Lord Orr-Ewing and Kenneth Baker MP (re radio frequency allocations)

1715

Paul Johnson [+BI (Bernard Ingham)]

1830

Audience

Look in at Efficiency Unit Party

[Dine H/C +MA (Michael Alison)]

Paired all day

2030

Dine H/C with DT, CT (Christopher Tugendhat), MA (Michael Alison) and Chief Whip [John Wakeham]

MT Engagement Diary