Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 7 November 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 7 November 1984

0915

[RTA [Sir Robert Armstrong] [Staff Matter] – No. 10]

0930

[Yugoslav Foreign Minister – No. 10]

1000

Interview for Finnish Weekly Journal

1045

Meeting of Ministers re public expenditure [Ld Pres [Willie Whitelaw], Ch/Ex [Nigel Lawson], Chief Sec [Peter Rees], Mr Bailey, Mr Gregson]

1120

Meeting of Ministers re environment exp. Programme [S/Env [Patrick Jenkin], Ld President [Willie Whitelaw] & Peter Gregson +Mr Harding]

1230

Mr. Van Zyl Slabbert + Sir Laurens van der Post

1300

Lunch in flat [+Crawfie & Joy to discuss Christmas]

1430

Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

1500

1600

Meeting of Ministers re Starwars [sic: Star Wars] [FCS [Sir Geoffrey Howe], S/Def [Michael Heseltine], Ch/Ex [Nigel Lawson], Sir A. Acland, D. Goodall, P.C. & BC; followed by S/Defence [Michael Heseltine] and Admiral Fieldhouse +CP [Charles Powell]]

1730-1815

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson]

1830

S/S Energy [Peter Walker] and Mr. Gregson

2000

Dinner: Plowden Group +AT [Andrew Turnbull] - 71 Nottingham Terrace [Maurice Hodgson's home – Ed. note] [Informal] [Lord Edwin Plowden, Sir Peter Baxendell, Sir Maurice Hodgson, Kenneth Durham, Peter Laister, David Orr: see 6/2/2/94 f30]

MT Engagement Diary