Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 17 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

Thursday, 17 May 1984

0900

Questions Briefing Team

0930

Meeting of Ministers on Education in Liverpool [S/Ed (Sir Keith Joseph), Home Sec (Leon Brittan), Ch/Ex (Nigel Lawson), S/HSS (Norman Fowler), Chief Sec (Peter Rees), LPS (John Biffen), S/Env (Patrick Jenkin), RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong) & Buckley, Attorney General (Sir Michael Havers), Lord President (Willie Whitelaw) - No. 10]

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]

1130

Meeting of Ministers on Environmental Pollution [S/Energy (Peter Walker), S/Scotland (George Younger), S/Env (Patrick Jenkin), Mr Lamont, S/Emp (Tom King), Min/Ag (Michael Jopling), Ch/Sec (Peter Rees), S/Transport (Nicholas Ridley), Mr Waldegrave, RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong), Mr Whitney (FCO), Dr Nicholson]

1300

Lunch and Questions Briefing

1515

Questions

1545-1645

Meeting with 1922 Executive + Chief Whip [John Wakeham] - H/C [+Michael Alison - see Alison diary, 2/6/3/8] [Alison minute for MT, 14 May 1984. Du Cann wants to raised three topics "Government's general strategy, particularly its relationship with the electorate in respect of farming and the NHS; Foreign policy, especially East-West relations and Africa; Ulster", 6/2/3/13 f26]

1700-1800

King Hussein

1800

Mr. Coles on South Africa

1830

Minter of Agriculture [Michael Jopling] + AT [Andrew Turnbull] + MA [Michael Alison]

1900

To H/C

Supper H/C + MA [Michael Alison] [handwritten original indicates this took place after next meeting, which makes more sense with the timeline]

1915

Mr. Jim Lester, MP + MA [Michael Alison] + AT [Andrew Turnbull]

Paired all day

MT Engagement Diary