Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 26 April 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 26 April 1984

0900

Questions briefing team

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

Meeting of Ministers re Liverpool [S/Env (Patrick Jenkin), S/Ed (Sir Keith Joseph), S/TI (Norman Tebbit), H/S (Leon Brittan), CST (Peter Rees), AG (Sir Michael Havers), LPS (John Biffen), S/HSS (Norman Fowler), S/Def (Michael Heseltine), RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong), Mr Buckley]

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1545

Lord Mackay: Lord Advocate + Robin Butler - H/C [6/2/3/12 f207 - MT to thank and ask for "commendation in regard to his successor"]

1615

Ralph Howell MP and Chief Whip [John Wakeham] - H/C [NHS management: 6/2/3/12 f208]

1645

Return to No. 10

1700

Lord Bruce-Gardyne re Scottish speech [5/1/5/256 f34] [+John Redwood - No. 10]

1800-1830

Lord Rothschild [via FERB (Robin Butler.)]

1830

Mr. Barclay and Mr. Letwin for NSPCC speech

1950

To H/C

2000

Supper [H/C – location from handwritten original] + MA [Michael Alison]

2200

Two Line Vote

MT Engagement Diary