Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 24 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 24 January 1985

0830

Hair [Flat]

0900

Questions briefing

0930

Meeting of Ministers [S/Energy (Peter Walker), S/Employment (Tom King) +Mr Gregson]

1000

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]

1200

Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe] [(bilateral)]

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1545

Lord Constantine +MA [Michael Alison] - H/C

1600-1630

Mr. Robert Kilroy-Silk MP + Mr. Butcher (DTI) re closure of BICC, Prescot - H/C [+TF (Tim Flesher)]

Return to No. 10

1630

Home Secretary [Leon Brittan] and Chief Whip [John Wakeham]

1700

Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Chancellor [Nigel Lawson], RTA [Sir Robert Armstrong], FERB [Robin Butler] and AT [Andrew Turnbull] [Handwritten original has E(A) at 1700.]

1830

Reception for Hong Kong negotiators +DT [No.10]

2000

Supper in flat

2040

Depart +BI [Bernard Ingham]

2100

Arrive Thames TV

2130-2200

TV Eye Interview with Alastair Burnet