Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 29 October 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 29 October 1985

0900

Questions Briefing Team

0930

Briefing for Statement

1000-1100

Meeting of Ministers (Northern Ireland - S/S for Northern Ireland [Tom King], Home Secretary [Douglas Hurd], Foreign Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Sir Robert Armstrong, Mr. Powell)

1100

Foreign Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe] and Mr. Powell

1145

Depart No. 10 + Mr. Alison

1150

Arrive St. Margaret’ s Church, Westminster

1200

Memorial Service for Pat Hornsby-Smith + Mr. Alison St Margaret’s Church

1300

Lunch and Questions Briefing

1515

Questions H/C

1530

Statement H/C

Sit in on Statements H/C

1700

David Williamson & Sir Michael Butler + Mr. Powell H/C

1800

Cranley Onslow MP + Mr. Alison H/C

1815

Drinks with MPs: Home Affairs Committee H/C [+ Michael Alison: see his engagement diary, 2/6/3/9 f43] [letter of thanks from Mark Carlisle to MT, 30 Oct 1985: 2/6/3/25 part 3 f4] [Mark Carlisle, Ivan Lawrence, Michael Mates, John Wheeler, Teddy Taylor; Douglas Hurd, David Waddington, Giles Shaw also attending: 2/6/3/25 part 3 f6]

1915

George Gardiner MP and others + Mr. Alison H/C [TSRB]

Supper with Mr. Alison No. 10

MT Engagement Diary