Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 19 January 1984

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/6
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; PREM32/18 is the manuscript version of the diary, PREM32/6 the typed one.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Thursday 19 January 1984

0900

Questions briefing team [at No. 10 according to handwritten original]

0945

S/S Trade and Industry [Norman Tebbit] re Airbus

1000

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]

Followed by E(A)

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing [at No. 10 according to handwritten original]

1515

Questions

1545-1630

Meeting with Backbench Trade and Industry C[ommi]ttee - H/C [new committee - Neil Hamilton, Michael Grylls (chairman), John Ward (secretary), Jeremy Hanley: 6/2/3/10 ff32 onwards]

Return to No. 10

1700

Billy Graham [see Michael Alison minute, 18 Jan 1984: 6/2/3/10 f8] [at No. 10 according to handwritten original]

1745

Meeting of Ministers re redundancy payments in the public sector [Ch/Ex (Nigel Lawson), DTI (Norman Tebbit), S/Scotland (George Younger), S/Energy (Peter Walker), S/Emp. (Tom King), S/Wales (Nicholas Edwards), S/Transport (Nicholas Ridley), Peter Gregson] [at No/ 10 according to handwritten original] [files show this meeting related specifically to the coal industry: editor's note, 30 June 2014]

To H/C

1900

Vote [3 Line according to handwritten original]

Dinner at H/C

2100