Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 17 January 1985

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/7
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; PREM32/19 is the manuscript version of the diary, PREM32/7 the typed one.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Thursday 17 January 1985

0830

Hair [Flat]

0900

Questions briefing team [No.10]

0930

Meeting of Ministers re Interception [FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe), Home Sec (Leon Brittan), S/NI (Douglas Hurd), RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong), Sir A. Duff +FERB (Robin Butler)]

1030

Cabinet [Viscount Whitelaw, Lord Hailsham, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Leon Brittan, Nigel Lawson, Sir Keith Joseph, Peter Walker, Michael Heseltine, George Younger, Nicholas Edwards, Patrick Jenkin, John Biffen, Norman Fowler, Norman Tebbit, Tom King, Michael Jopling, Peter Rees, Nicholas Ridley, Douglas Hurd, Lord Gowrie, Lord Young of Graffham, John Wakeham]

Meeting of Ministers re Rate Capping [Ld Pres (Willie Whitelaw), S/Env (Patrick Jenkin), Mr Baker, S/Ed (Sir Keith Joseph), AG (Sir Michael Havers), Chairman (John Gummer), BI (Bernard Ingham) - No.10]

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing [No.10]

1515

Questions

1545

John Hume MP + S/S NI [Douglas Hurd] and CDP [Charles Powell] - H/C

1615

Return to No. 10

1630

Briefing for Anglo-German bilaterals +CDP [Charles Powell] [No.10]

1800-1830

Sir Edward du Cann re 2nd report of the Public Accounts Commission [+FERB (Robin Butler) - No.10]

[Change]

1915

Depart No. 10 +DT

1920

Arrive Coliseum

1930

“Rigoletto” with Lord Harewood followed by supper with Lord Goodman +DT [Informal - 79 Portland Place [6361306]] [see MT to Goodman, 27 Jan 1985, 3/2/158 f47] [Lord & Lady Harewood, Mrs Hammerson, Lord Goodman, Mr & Mrs Geoffrey Bradman, Mr and Mrs Ralph Halpern] [all connected with Coliseum Special Appeal Committee] [see 6/2/2/100 f148]

MT Engagement Diary