Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 29 October 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 29 October 1984

0830

Hair [Flat – location from handwritten original]

1000

Meeting of Ministers re Police Bill [HS [Leon Brittan], Ld Pres [Willie Whitelaw], LPS [John Biffen], Dep Ch Wh [John Cope] +MA [Michael Alison]]

1030-1045

Gilly Rayner for photograph [6/2/3/14 f17: photograph as basis for a pencil drawing for NSPCC] [No. 10 – location from handwritten original]

1045

Stephen Sherbourne

1100

Meeting of Ministers re Ethiopia

1130

MISC 101

1230

Dep. Chief Whip, LPS [John Biffen], Lord Pres [Willie Whitelaw] and Chairman [John Selwyn Gummer]

1300

Lunch for Colleagues

1430

Meeting of Ministers re Government purchasing [Chief Sec [Peter Rees], Min/FCO, H/S [Leon Brittan], S/Def [Michael Heseltine], S/HSS [Norman Fowler], M/ODA, S/Env [Patrick Jenkin], Min/DTI, S/Trans [Nicholas Ridley], Ld Gowrie/RTA [Sir Robert Armstrong], Sir R. Ibbs – No. 10]

1600-1630

Sir Alan Traill: next Lord Mayor of London [+FERB [Robin Butler]]

1630

To H/C

1630-1715

Sir Percy Cradock - H/C [General Chat] [handwritten original gives location as No. 10 and follows it with “To H/C”]

1800

Chancellor [Nigel Lawson], LPS [John Biffen] and Dep. Chief Whip [John Cope] - H/C

1830

Bob Young from Policy Unit to say farewell - H/C [handwritten original has this at 1815]

1830-2000

Meeting and drink with special advisers - H/C [Stephen Sherbourne, Edward Bickham, Tim Boswell, Chris Butler, Peter Davis, Michael Dobbs, Robin Harris, Nigel Hawkins, John Houston, Rodney Lord, John Redwood, Chris Mockler, Michael Portillo, Katharine Ramsay, Adam Ridley, Stuart Sexton, Nicholas True, John Whittingdale, Peter Cropper] [2/6/3/161 part 1 f5]

Supper +MA [Michael Alison]

Running Two Line

MT Engagement Diary