Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 10 December 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 10 December 1985

0900-0930

Questions Briefing Team

0930

Mr. Sherbourne for New Year message

1000

Ministerial Briefing Meeting (Secretary of State for the Environment [Kenneth Baker], Secretary of State for Employment [Lord Young], Mr. Trippier, Mr. Howard, Mr. Addison and Mr. Watson)

1015

Sainsbury Group Meeting + Mr. Watson and Mr. Addison

1200

Secretary Shultz + CDP [Charles Powell] and Foreign Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

1245

Meeting of Ministers [Abolition: Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen], Solicitor General [Sir Patrick Mayhew], Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster [Norman Tebbit], Chief Secretary [John MacGregor], Secretary of State for the Environment [Kenneth Baker]]

1300

Lunch and Questions Briefing [No.10]

1515

Questions

1600

Meeting of Ministers [Submarines: Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen], Secretary of State for Defence [Michael Heseltine], Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [Leon Brittan], Secretary of State for Scotland [George Younger], Secretary of State for the Environment [Kenneth Baker], Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster [Norman Tebbit], Mr. Alan Clark (PUSS D/Employment), Mr. Wiggins] House of Commons [Handwritten original also lists CST (John MacGregor) and S/Emp (Lord Young).]

1700

Cranley Onslow MP + Mr. Alison [H/C]

1715

Meeting of 1922 Executive + Mr. Alison - House of Commons

1815

Depart House of Commons for Buckingham Palace + Mr. Wicks

1830

Audience - Buckingham Palace [HM The Queen] [+NW (Nigel Wicks)]

[To H/C]

2000

Supper + Mr. Alison - House of Commons [Handwritten original indicates this was a working supper.]

Afterwards

Speech writing + Mr. Wicks and Mr. Norgrove

[Handwritten original has MT again returning to H/C; however, it’s unclear that she ever left.]

2200

Two Line Whip

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