Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 8 March 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 8 March 1984

0830

Hair

0900

Questions briefing team

0930

S/S Scotland [George Younger] + FERB [Robin Butler]

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

ES on Trade Policy

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1545

Conservative European Reform Group - H/C [Sir Nicholas Bonsor, Jonathan Aitken, Teddy Taylor, Peter Lloyd, Tony Marlow, Roger Moate, Richard Shepherd, Bill Walker, Peter Fry; John Coles, Michael Alison] [6/2/3/12 f32]

1630

Return to No. 10

1645-1815

Meeting of Ministers on EC issues [FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe), Ch/Ex (Nigel Lawson), M/Ag (Michael Jopling), Sir M. Franklin +RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong), Mr Hannay, Mr Williamson, Sir M. Butler]

1800

Ian Gow MP

1815

Change

1830-2000

Reception for US Sponsors of ENO [English National Opera] +DT [No. 10 – location from handwritten original]

2000

Depart for Tara Hotel

2015

Euro Candidates Conference dinner (speech) - Tara Hotel [Kensington, Informal +MA (Michael Alison) +SS (Stephen Sherbourne)] [Sir Henry Plumb, John Selwyn Gummer, Sir Fred Catherwood, Christopher Prout, Michael Alison, Lady Elles, Michael Welsh, Edward Kellett-Bowman, Adam Fergusson] [John Wakeham, Michael Spicer, David Hunt, Patrick Lawrence, Sir Anthony Garner, Peter Cropper, Anthony Shrimsley, Angela Hooper, Stephen Sherbourne, Andrew Tyrie, Brendon Donnelly] [6/2/3/12 f137]

[PM paired all day]

MT Engagement Diary