Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 23 January 1986

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/8
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; PREM32/20, covering 1986, can be read here.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Thursday 23 January 1986

0830

Hair

0900

Questions Briefing Team

0930

Keep free for Statement

1030

Cabinet [Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Lord Chancellor [Quintin Hailsham] Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Secretary of State for Trade and industry [Leon Brittan], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Home Secretary [Douglas Hurd], Secretary of State for Education and Science [Sir Keith Joseph], Secretary of State for Energy [Peter Walker], Secretary of State for Defence [George Younger], Secretary of State for Wales [Nicholas Edwards], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen], Secretary of State for Health and Social Services [Norman Fowler], Secretary of State for Northern Ireland [Tom King], Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food [Michael Jopling], Secretary of State for Transport [Nicholas Ridley], Secretary of State for Employment [Lord David Young], Secretary of State for the Environment [Kenneth Baker], Paymaster General [Kenneth Clarke], Chief Secretary Treasury [John MacGregor], Secretary of State for Scotland [Malcolm Rifkind]; also present - Chief Whip [John Wakeham]; Secretariat – Sir Robert Armstrong, David Williamson (items 2-5), Christopher Mallaby (items 2-5), A.J. Langdon (item 1), R. Watson (item 1)]

Afterwards

[After Cabinet]

Keep free for Statement

1300

Lunch and Questions Briefing

1515

Questions

1530

Statement

[Return to No.10]

1750

Depart for Claridges [1715 Depart for Claridges]

1800-1830

[1730-1830]

Attend Reception in honour of Prime Minister of Israel [Shimon Peres] + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

Return to No. 10

Change

1945 for 2000

Dinner in honour of NSPCC + Mr. Thatcher, Mr. Addison (Black Tie) [Mark Addison] [see THCR 1/3/19 f97: the Duke of Westminster, the Duchess of Westminster, Gerald Ronson, Lady Porter, Sir Maurice Laing, Sir Jocelyn Stevens, Sir Terence Conran, Ralph Halpern, Mrs Vivien Duffield, Swraj Paul, Sir Jack Lyons, Sir Philip Harris, Robert Maxwell, Ernest Saunders]

PAIRED ALL DAY

MT Engagement Diary