Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 31 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

Tuesday 31 January 1984

Questions briefing team

Meeting with Scottish TUC Delegation re Scott Lithgow + S/S Scotland [George Younger] and Mr. Lamont

Sir Austin Pearce (British Aerospace) [THCR 2/6/3/172 part 2 f10] [+ Norman Tebbit + Michael Alison + Andrew Turnbull]

Lunch and Questions briefing

Questions

Martin Stevens MP, John Wheeler MP and Mr. B[ob] Dunn re ILEA - H/C [& Chief Whip (John Wakeham)]

Return to No. 10

Briefing meeting for Hungarian visit (Sir A. Acland, Sir J. Bullard and Mr. B. Cartledge + FCS [Sir Geoffrey Howe]) [& David Goodall - No. 10]

Interviews for Hungary: BBC World Service, followed by Hungarian TV

Meeting of Ministers re GCHQ [LPC (Willie Whitelaw), FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe), S/Emp (Tom King), RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong)]

FCS [Sir Geoffrey Howe], S/S Employment [Tom King], Sir Robert Armstrong, Lord President [Willie Whitelaw] and Attorney General [Sir Michael Havers]

Depart

Dinner with Hungarian Ambassador [Rezso Banyasz] + Mr. Coles - [at Flat 25, 6th Floor according to handwritten original] 1 Lowndes Square (black tie)

[Mr Fodor – 235.4048]

Paired all day