Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 21 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 21 December 1983

0900

Richard Evans (new British Ambassador to Peking)

0930

Meeting of Ministers re agricultural expenditure [Chief Secretary (Peter Rees), M for Ag (Michael Jopling), +FM (Ferdie Mount)]

1100

Lord Rothschild, Min. of Agriculture [Michael Jopling], Sir Michael Franklin re agriculture, food research and development

1200

Martin Stevens MP and Fulham trainees to present table [+Mr. Marsh +MA (Michael Alison)]

1230

Mr. Bernard Matthews, President of the British Turkey Federation to present turkey [& Eileen Doran Ex Sec]

1315

Media Lunch

1445

Dr. Henry Kissinger +FCS [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

1600

Mr. Harold Macmillan

1645

OD(EM)

1730

Meeting of Ministers re TSRB [S/ Def (Michael Heseltine), Ch/ Ex (Nigel Lawson), Lord Chancellor (Lord Hailsham), LPS (John Biffen), S/ DHSS (Norman Fowler) & RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong)]

1745

Look in on Whips' Party

1830

Central Office Party - look in

Sir A. Parsons' Farewell Party

Paired all day

MT Engagement Diary