Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 29 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

Wednesday 29 February 1984

0855

Depart No. 10 for Ministry of Defence

0900-1030

Visit to MOD Soviet Chemical Warfare + Mr. Coles [North entrance, MOD]

Return to No. 10

1030

Keep free for Mr. Butler

1130

Sir Alan Walters

1200

Talks with Premier [William G.] Davis of Ontario [William G. Davis] [MT to Davis, 5 March 1984, 3/2/135 f104]

1300

Lunch in flat

1415

Depart for H/C

1420

Chief Whip [John Wakeham] re invitations to Cabinet Office War Rooms - H/C

1430

Introduction of the Earl of Stockton [Harold Macmillan] [+Chief Whip (John Wakeham)] - H/L

1445

Meeting of Ministers re Liverpool - H/C [S/Env (Patrick Jenkin), Defence (Michael Heseltine), DHSS (Norman Fowler), DES (Sir Keith Joseph), Home Sec (Leon Brittan), CST (Peter Rees), A-G (Sir Michael Havers), Mr Buckley]

1545

Return to No 10

1600

EX [at No. 10 according to handwritten original]

1700

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson] [or 18[?]0 if not time – No. 10]

1730

Meeting of Ministers re MPs pay [Ch/Ex (Nigel Lawson), LPS (John Biffen) & CW (John Wakeham) & Financial Secretary (John Moore) - No. 10]

1815

To H/C

1820

[Chancellor of Exchequer (Nigel Lawson) (if necessary) - H/C]

1830

Three Line Vote

c. 1900

Return to No. 10 [approximate time from handwritten original]

1915

Look in at Joan Porter's Farewell Party

[Supper in flat?]

MT Engagement Diary