Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 26 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

Monday 26 March 1984

0745

Hair

0945

Meeting of Ministers re coal [HS (Leon Brittan), Ch/Ex (Nigel Lawson), S/Energy (Peter Walker), S/Defence (Michael Heseltine), S/Scotland (George Younger), S/T+I (Norman Tebbit), S/Employment (Tom King), S/Trans (Nicholas Ridley), S/Env (Patrick Jenkin), AG (Sir Michael Havers) - No. 10]

1030

Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe] and Mr. Williamson re Europe

1130

Sir Percy Cradock

1200

Chief Whip [John Wakeham]

1215

Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen], Chairman [John Selwyn Gummer]

1300

Lunch for colleagues

1430

Meeting of Ministers re Liverpool [S/Env (Patrick Jenkin), S/DHSS (Norman Fowler), S/Ed (Sir Keith Joseph), S/TI (Norman Tebbit), H/S (Leon Brittan), CST (Peter Rees), A-G (Sir Michael Havers), RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong) & Mr Buckley, S/Scotland (George Younger), LPS (John Biffen)]

1500

Meeting of Ministers re Commissioner Legislation [Ld Pres (Willie Whitelaw), H/S (Leon Brittan), S/Env (Patrick Jenkin), S/Ed (Sir Keith Joseph), S/TI (Norman Tebbit), S/Scot (George Younger), LPS (John Biffen), S/HSS (Norman Fowler), Ch/Sec (Peter Rees), AG (Sir Michael Havers), S/Transport (Nicholas Ridley), RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong) & Mr Buckley]

1600

OD(K)

1800

Change

1820

Depart

1830

Open 'Drive Forward' Exhibition on Car Design (short speech) - Design Centre [Sir William Barlow (chairman, the Design Council), Keith Grant (director), Geoffrey Taylor, Sir Malcolm Wilcox, Ian Paterson, John Butcher, Peter Lazarus, John Bull (Lord Mayor of Westminster), Mrs Frances Mann] [Jackie Stewart, Robin Nicholson, Ian Stewart, Matthew Parris, Lucia Van Der Post] [see 6/2/2/79 f100 also for timetable and full list of attendees] [+DB (David Barclay)]

1930

Depart

2015

Look in at 300 Group Reception + MA [Michael Alison] - Cholmondeley Room H/L [Lynda Chalker, Marcia Falkender, Lesley Abdela: 6/2/2/79, passim]

2045

Return to No. 10

Supper in flat

Paired all day

MT Engagement Diary