Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 31 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

Wednesday 31 October 1984

0830

[Hair – Flat]

0900

Keep free for make-up and briefing

0930-1030

Interview with Austrian TV and Die Welt paper [No. 10 – location from handwritten original]

1030-1130

Meeting of Ministers re GCHQ [Ld Pres [Willie Whitelaw], FCS [Sir Geoffrey Howe], S/Emp [Tom King], Ch/Duchy [Lord Gowrie], A.G. [Sir Michael Havers], Minister of State (Treasury), Mr Goodall]

1215-1230

S/S Social Services [Norman Fowler] + FERB [Robin Butler]

1300

Lunch for Daily Telegraph [see Deedes to MT, 29 Oct 1984, 5/2/139 f9] [No. 10 – location from handwritten original]

1530

Statement on death of Mrs. Gandhi - H/C

1610

Return to No. 10

1615

Meeting of Ministers re Northern Ireland [FCS [Sir Geoffrey Howe], S/NI [Douglas Hurd], Mr Andrew, Mr Goodall, RTA [Sir Robert Armstrong] – No. 10]

1715

Meeting of Ministers re Public Expenditure FCO [FCS [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Ld Pres [Willie Whitelaw], Chief Sec [Peter Rees] & Peter Gregson]

1800-1900

Meeting of Ministers re public expenditure – overview [Lord Pres [Willie Whitelaw], Ch [illegible], CST [Peter Rees], Mr Gregson, Mr Bailey (HMT)]

1915

Dr. Henderson

1930

Working supper to discuss Carlton Lecture [Hugh Thomas, Paul Johnson: see 2/6/3/170 part 2 f105] [Anthony Quinton, Hugh Thomas, Peter Utley, Brigid Utley, Paul Johnson, Michael Alison, John Redwood, Stephen Sherbourne: 6/2/3/15 f69; "not a drafting session, but an opportunity to discuss ideas"] [seating plan 6/2/3/15 f125] [Small Dining Room]

Paired all day

MT Engagement Diary