Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 4 March 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

Monday 4 March 1985

0830

Hair [Flat]

1000

MISC 101

1030

New Zealand Prime Minister [David Lange] [No.10]

1130

Chairman [John Selwyn Gummer], FERB [Robin Butler], SS [Stephen Sherbourne] re security matters

1200

Chief Whip [John Wakeham] re honours

1215

Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen], Lord President [Willie Whitelaw] and Chairman [John Selwyn Gummer]

1300

Lunch for colleagues

1430

Meeting of Ministers re intelligence [Meeting of Ministers [re Security Services] Ld Pres (Willie Whitelaw), AG (Sir Michael Havers), H/S (Leon Brittan), RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong]

1515

To H/C

1530

[Sit in on two Statements]

Statement by Mr. [Peter] Walker

Statement by Mr. [Douglas] Hurd

1630

Sir John Jones to say farewell +FERB [Robin Butler]

1700

Mr. Michael Morris and Mr. Clarke +TF [Tim Flesher]

1730

Mr. Steel, Lady Seear, Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], FERB [Robin Butler] re Liberal Working Peers

1815

Depart No. 10 [Handwritten original says, “Depart H/C”, which makes more sense.]

1820

Arrive Institution of Civil Engineers, Gt. George Street +DT, MA [Michael Alison], SS [Stephen Sherbourne] for Centre for Policy Studies AGM [Lecture Room: 1st Floor] [see Hugh Thomas to MT, 6 March 1985: 1/3/15 f49]

To House of Commons

Supper +MA [Michael Alison]

2130

S/S Employment [Tom King] +AT [Andrew Turnbull] - H/C

2200

3 Line Vote

MT Engagement Diary