Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 6 November 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

Wednesday 6 November 1985

1000c

Depart No. 10

1130

State Opening of Parliament H/C

After

Look in at Speaker’s Reception + Mr. Alison

Lunch and work on speech H/C [Handwritten original says, “Lunch + Colleagues: Work on speech H/C”.]

1430

Opening Speech on Debate on the Address H/C

1645

Harvey Thomas (re lectern for Lord Mayor’s Banquet) H/C

1700

Sir Robin Ibbs (Value for Money Targets) H/C [Handwritten original has “or NW” beneath this entry; could equally apply to the entry below.] [Nigel Wicks]

1745

Briefing Meeting [Mr. Unwin + Mr. Norgrove] H/C

1815

Secretary of State for the Environment [Kenneth Baker] + Mr. Wicks H/C

1845

Lord President [Willie Whitelaw] and Chief Whip [John Wakeham] + Mr. Wicks H/C [Re Housing P.E.]

[briefing card has Norgrove not Wicks; 5/1/4/104 f173]

1930

Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe] + Mr. Powell H/C

2105

Return to No. 10

Supper Flat

MT Engagement Diary