Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 7 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

Tuesday 7 February 1984

0830

Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe] and Secretary of State for Defence [Michael Heseltine] re Lebanon [Richard Luce, CDS (Chief of Defence Staff, Field Marshal Sir Edwin Bramall)]

0915

Questions briefing team

0945

Chancellor [Nigel Lawson], Chancellor of the Duchy [Lord Cockfield] re long-term tax strategy

1030

[Keep Free]

1130

S/S for Social Services [Norman Fowler] re SS benefits

1145

Meeting with FCS [Sir Geoffrey Howe], S/S Emp [Tom King], Attorney General [Sir Michael Havers], Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Sir Robert Armstrong re evidence to Select Committee re GCHQ

1230

[Meeting of Ministers [FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe), SS/Def (Michael Heseltine), CDS (Field Marshal Sir Edwin Bramall), Mr Luce]]

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1545

J. [John] Powley, MP, and Mr. Hedges to present PM with handbag - H/C

1600

Robert Kilroy-Silk MP and Mr. John Butcher, MP - H/C

1630

Return to No. 10

1700

FCS [Sir Geoffrey Howe], S/S Defence [Michael Heseltine], CDS [Field Marshal Sir Edwin Bramall], Mr. Luce re Lebanon

1815

Depart for Buckingham Palace

1830

Audience [HM The Queen]

Keep free for speech

Supper in flat [+AT (Andrew Turnbull), JR (John Redwood), SS (Stephen Sherbourne), MA (Michael Alison)]

Paired all day

MT Engagement Diary