Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 5 December 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 5 December 1984

0845

S/S Education [Sir Keith Joseph] [handwritten original specifies “if necessary”]

0900

Keep free for Statement

0930

Meeting with Hong Kong Unofficials

1030

Keep free for Statement

1145

Depart No. 10 [+MA [Michael Alison]]

1152

[Arrive for]

1200

Memorial Service for Sir Anthony Berry - St. Margaret's, Westminster [+ MA [Michael Alison]]

[Read lesson]

1300

Return to No. 10

Lunch in flat and work on statement

1515

To H/C

1530

Statement on European Council [followed by possible Education Statement]

Return to No. 10

1700

David Barclay for NHBC speech [+JR [John Redwood]]

1800

Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen] - H/C [private chat]

1830

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson] [Bilateral]

1915

Cecil Parkinson [No. 10 – location from handwritten original]

1945

Supper in flat

MT Engagement Diary