Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 19 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

Thursday 19 December 1985

0830

Hair [Flat]

0900

Chief Whip [John Wakeham] + Messrs. Wicks and Powell [Handwritten original has “Questions Briefing Team” at this time.]

0930

[S/NI (Douglas Hurd) +CDP (Charles Powell)]

0945

Lord President [Willie Whitelaw] + Messrs Wicks and Powell

1000

Cabinet [Viscount Whitelaw, Lord Hailsham, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Leon Brittan, Nigel Lawson, Douglas Hurd, Sir Keith Joseph, Peter Walker, Michael Heseltine, George Younger, Nicholas Edwards, John Biffen, Norman Fowler, Norman Tebbit, Tom King, Michael Jopling, Nicholas Ridley, Lord Young of Graffham, Kenneth Baker, Kenneth Clarke, John MacGregor, John Wakeham]

After

Meeting of Ministers [Inner Cities, MISC 104]

1300

Lunch and Questions Briefing

1515

Questions

1545

Sir Edward du Cann + Mr. Wicks [Salary Comptroller and Auditor General] H/C

1630

Meeting of Ministers [Energy: Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Secretary of State for Energy [Peter Walker], Scotland [George Younger], Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster [Norman Tebbit], Home Secretary [Douglas Hurd], Mr. Brian Unwin, and Mr. Norgrove] H/C

1730

Cecil Parkinson and Peter Rees + Messrs Powell and Alison [Hong Kong] H/C

Return to No. 10

1750

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland [Tom King] + Mr. Powell

1830-2000

Office Christmas Party

PAIRED ALL DAY

MT Engagement Diary