Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 23 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

Thursday 23 February 1984

0830

Hair

0900

Questions Briefing Team

0930

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson]

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]

After

GCHQ Briefing Meeting [Ld Pres (Willie Whitelaw), FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe), LPS (John Biffen), S/Emp (Tom King), Ch Wh (John Wakeham), Mr Hayhoe, Ld Gowrie, AG (Sir Michael Havers), RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong), Mr Kemp, Mr Smith, Mr Le Cheminant]

1230

S/S Energy [Peter Walker] re Gas

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1600

GCHQ Briefing Meeting [FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe), S/Emp (Tom King), Ld Gowrie, AG (Sir Michael Havers), RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong) +officials if necessary]

1630

Meeting with Council of Civil Service Unions re GCHQ [handwritten original says TUC, not CoCSU and has this meeting at No. 10]

1800

S/S Energy [Peter Walker] [on standby according to handwritten original]

1830

Mr. du Cann [on standby according to handwritten original]

2010

[Depart No. 10]

2020

[Arrive]

2030

Dinner in honour of Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia +DT [& AJC (John Coles) according to handwritten original] (black tie) - Inn on the Park

[+ Saudi Ambassador, Sheikh Nasser Almanquor GCVO, MT to Almanquor, 24 Feb 1984 3/2/134 f27]

Paired all day

MT Engagement Diary