Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 23 May 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 23 May 1985

0900

Questions Briefing Team [No.10]

0930

View presents for Premier Zhao Ziyang

0940

Keep free to read papers (via Andrew Turnbull)

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]

After

Meeting of Ministers (Review Body Reports. S/S Social Services [Norman Fowler]; S/S Defence [Michael Heseltine]; Chancellor [Nigel Lawson]; S/S Employment [Tom King], S/S Scotland [George Younger]; S/S Education [Sir Keith Joseph]; Sir Robert Armstrong)

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1545-1615

Frank Field MP + Min/State Trade and Industry and Tim Flesher - H/C

Return to No. 10

1630

OD(I)

1730

Meeting of Ministers (BL)

1830

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson] [Bilateral]

1930

Supper with Chief Whip [John Wakeham] + Lord President [Willie Whitelaw] and Mr. Butler - No. 12 [CC: to discuss reshuffle - see MT’s papers]

PAIRED ALL DAY

MT Engagement Diary