Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 6 February 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

Monday 6 February 1984

0830

Hair

1000

Media

1030

Home Secretary [Leon Brittan] re obscenity legislation

1100

Home Secretary [Leon Brittan], Lord Nugent and others re obscenity legislation [+MA (Michael Alison) +TF (Tim Flesher) - No. 10]

1145

Michael Foulds (Press Office) to say goodbye

1200

Chief Whip [John Wakeham]

1215

Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen], Lord President [Willie Whitelaw]

1300

Lunch for colleagues [John Biffen, Willie Whitelaw, John Wakeham, David Wolfson, Arthur Cockfield, George Younger, Michael Alison - see Alison minute for Robin Butler, 3 Feb 1984 (2/6/3/16 part 2 f58)]

1430

E(A)

1600

Keep free for Small Business Bureau speech

1900

2 Line Vote

Supper in flat [+DT]

2150

Depart No. 10

2200-2400

Winter Ball +DT and MA [Michael Alison] - Grosvenor House [Park Lane Entrance according to handwritten original] [Anne Parkinson (chairman of the ball), Bob Monkhouse, Cecil Parkinson] [Top Table guests: The Dowager Viscountess Davidson CBE and The Hon Malcolm Davidson, Lord and Lady Thorneycroft, Mrs Michael Alison, Mr and Mrs John Carter, Mr and Mrs Ian Gow, Mr and Mrs Michael Grylls, Mr Martin Holmes and partner, The Hon Alistair McAlpine and Mrs McAlpine, Mr and Mrs Rogan MacLean, Mr Michael Mander and partner, Mr and Mrs R. Morris-Adams, Dr C. Powell-Brett and partner, Mr and Mrs David Rose, Mr and Mrs Dillon Welchman, Mr and Mrs T. Cowles-Meyer: see THCR 6/2/3/11 f164 also for

Winter Ball programme]

Paired after 1900

MT Engagement Diary