Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 1 May 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

Tuesday 1 May 1984

0715

[Rehearsal]

0900

Questions briefing team

0930

Sir James Goold [+Michael Alison - see Alison diary, 2/6/3/8] [6/2/3/13 f3-18 - "to brief her on current matters in Scotland prior to the [Scottish Conservative] Conference", Graham Macmillan's retirement] [via PO]

0945

Meeting of Ministers re Direct Broadcasting Satellite [H/S (Leon Brittan), S/TI (Norman Tebbit), Ch/Duchy (Lord Cockfield), Chief Sec (Peter Rees), RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong) & David Pascall, Jeffrey Sterling, Dr Nicholson]

1100

Mr. [David] Wolfson

1115

Sir William Duncan, Chairman of Rolls Royce [& S/TI (Norman Tebbit) [via FERB (Robin Butler)] - No. 10]

1200

Meeting of Ministers re strikes in essential services [Ch/Ex (Nigel Lawson), H/S (Leon Brittan), S/TI (Norman Tebbit), S/Energy (Peter Walker), S/Emp (Tom King), S/Env (Patrick Jenkin), S/DHSS (Norman Fowler), RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong) & Gregson, Mr Clarke]

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1530

Statement [by Home Secretary (Leon Brittan) & FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe) - H/C]

1655

Return to No. 10

1745

Briefing meeting for Anglo-German Bilaterals

1815

Depart

1830

Audience [HM The Queen]

Depart for Chequers

Overnight at Chequers

Paired all day

MT Engagement Diary