Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 22 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 22 December 1983

0830

Questions briefing team

0930

Depart No. 10

1015

Questions

1100

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]

1145

Foreign Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

1230

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson]

1300

Dame Felicity Yonge to say farewell

1315

Lunch with Private Secretaries

1430

Gordon Shepherd from Press Office to say farewell

1445

Mr. Marychurch

1500

Meeting of Ministers re GCHQ [Ch/ Ex (Nigel Lawson), FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe), HS (Leon Brittan), S/ Def (Michael Heseltine), S/ Emp (Tom King) +Mr. Marychurch, RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong), & Sir A. Duff]

1630

Meeting of Ministers re Argentina [Ch/ Ex (Nigel Lawson), FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe) & SG (Sir Patrick Mayhew)]

1715

Ian Gow

1800

Hair

MT Engagement Diary