Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 19 July 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 19 July 1984

0830

Hair [Flat – location from handwritten original]

0900

Questions briefing team

0930

Meeting of Ministers re Chairmanship of Agriculture Wages Board [of England & Wales] [+ Minister of Agriculture (Michael Jopling), Secretary of State Wales (Nicholas Edwards) and Robert Armstrong: see engagement card, THCR 5/1/4/78 f3]

0945

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]

[Meeting of Ministers]

MISC 7

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

Keep free for speech preparation [H/C – location from handwritten original]

1800

Address 1922 Committee - H/C [+Michael Alison - see Alison diary, 2/6/3/8]

1900

2 Line Vote [Motions on Orders and Regulations on Social Security Up-Rating of Benefits and on the Pensioners Lump Sum Payments Order: “Divisions will take place, and your attendance at 6:30 p.ml for 7:00 p.m. is essential, unless you have registered a firm pair. … It is believed that the Opposition have a three line whip at 7:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.” See engagement card, THCR 5/1/4/78 f3]

1935

Depart H/C

1945

Arrive South Bank Studios

[Change (refreshments available)]

2010-2130

Record Aspel & Company programme [Michael Aspel] [Afterwards met guests in hospitality suite, including Barry Manilow, who was interviewed on a separate segment of the programme; John Birt also, as director of programmes at LWT: see 5/2/134 f45] [LWT Studios, South Bank]

Return to No. 10

Paired after 1900

MT Engagement Diary