Friday 3 January 1986
0830
[0830-0900]
Hair
0920
Secretary of State for Transport [Nicholas Ridley]+ Mr. Addison [Chairmanship of CAA] [Civil Aviation Authority
0930
E(A) [Channel Fixed Link] [Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [Leon Brittan], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen], Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food [Michael Jopling], Secretary of State for Transport [Nicholas Ridley], Secretary of State for the Environment [Ken Baker], Paymaster General [Kenneth Clarke], Chief Secretary, Treasury [John MacGregor], Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Secretary of State for Defence [Michael Heseltine], Solicitor General [Sir Patrick Mayhew], Parliamentary Secretary, Treasury [Chief Whip, John Wakeham], Minister of State Home Office [David Waddington]; Sir Robert Armstrong, J.B. Unwin, D.R.C. Christopher
1100-1200
Meeting of Ministers: Tin.
Chief Secretary [John MacGregor], Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Foreign Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Solicitor General [Sir Patrick Mayhew], Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [Leon Brittan], Governor of the Bank of England [Robin Leigh-Pemberton], Professor Griffiths, Mr. Hosker, Mr. P. Mountfield (Treasury), [Mr R. Mountfield] [Robin Mountfield, DTI], Mr. R. Braithwaite (FCO) [Handwritten diary and No.10 conversation record, 3 Jan 1986, PREM19/1984 f82 both list Farrow, Treasury in place of Hosker, as well as Robin Mountfield in addition to his namesake Peter]
1245
Depart for Chequers
1345
Late lunch at Chequers
1430-1600
Sitting for Dr. Donaldson, Portrait Painter
1650
Sir Laurens van der Post to tea
[DT will make own way in p/m]
1830
Jimmy Savile + three others
[Sister Brennen, Sister Rose, Angelo Williams Car reg JS 247] [possibly Sister Mary Brennan, a nurse at Stoke Mandeville]
1940
Jimmy Savile and his party depart Chequers
