Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 2 April 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

Tuesday 2 April 1985

0900

Questions briefing team

0930-1000

Keep free for statement [CDP (Charles Powell), TF (Tim Flesher) & Mr Williamson]

1000

Sir Robert Armstrong [+FERB (Robin Butler)]

1015-1130

Meeting of Ministers re teachers’ pay [S/Ed (Sir Keith Joseph), Ch/Ex (Nigel Lawson), S/Emp (Tom King), S/Env (Patrick Jenkin), S/Scot (George Younger), S/Wales (Nicholas Edwards), NI Minister (Nicholas Scott), Peter Gregson, John Wiggins, LPS (John Biffen), AG (Sir Michael Havers) +TF (Tim Flesher)]

1130-1140

S/S Environment [Patrick Jenkin] re household survey

1140

Keep free for Far East

1245-1300

Keep free for statement

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1530

Statement - H/C

1630

Return to No. 10

1700

Meeting of Ministers re FCO diplomatic wing exp. [Ch/Ex (Nigel Lawson), FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe), CST (Peter Rees), Sir A. Acland & Sir P. Middleton +CDP (Charles Powell)]

1745

Depart No. 10 +DT

1900

Arrive Windsor Castle to dine and sleep [+DT, Black Tie] [HMQ; Duke of Edinburgh; Alfred Parsons [Australian High Commissioner], Tom Stoppard, Miriam Stoppard, Lord Lowry, Professor Edward Hall; Marquess of Normanby; Eric da Rin (Deputy Secretary-General NATO)]

[PM paired all day]

MT Engagement Diary