Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 3 February 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

Monday 3 February 1986

0830

Hair [Flat]

0945

E(A) [The Remuneration of the Legal Profession] [Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Privy Seal, Minister of Agriculture, Secretary of State for Employment, Secretary of State for the Environment, Chief Secretary treasury, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, Lord President of the Council, Lord Chancellor, Home Secretary, Secretary of State for Education and Science, Attorney General, Solicitor General, Chief Whip, Minister of State Department of Transport, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Department of Energy, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Scottish Office] [Nigel Lawson; John Biffen, Michael Jopling, Lord David Young, Kenneth Baker, John MacGregor, Paul Channon; Whitelaw, Hailsham, Douglas Hurd, Sir Keith Joseph; Havers, Mayhew, Wakeham, David Mitchell Alastair Goodlad, Allan Stewart; Brian Unwin, A.J. Wiggins, J.E. Roberts]

1100

Lord President [Willie Whitelaw] (re legislative programme) + Mr. Flesher [Tim Flesher]

1145

Chief Whip [ John Wakeham; +Michael Alison: see Alison engagement diary, 2/6/3/10]

1215

Chief Whip, Lord Privy Seal and Lord President [John Wakeham, John Biffen, Willie Whitelaw; +Michael Alison: see Alison engagement diary, 2/6/3/10]

1300

Lunch for Colleagues [Sue Dickson minute for Michael Alison, 27 Jan 1986 lists this as “Lunch for speechwriters” – Ronnie Millar, Bill Deedes, Hugh Thomas, Peter Utley, Brigid Utley, Stephen Sherbourne, Angus Maude, William Waldegrave, Sir Eldon Griffiths, Ralph Harris, see THCR2/6/3/104 Part 2 f63 (seating plan) and f92]

1500

Mr. de la Rosiere: Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund [Jacques de la Rosière] + Mr. Wicks

1600

Mr. Powell and Sir Percy Cradock (Arms control)

1700

Mr. Norgrove [No 1700 engagement in handwritten diary]

1850

Depart for House of Commons

1900

THREE LINE WHIP

1910

Return to No. 10

change

2000

Depart No. 10 + Mr. Alison Mr. Alison [Michael Alison]

2015

Arrive Great Room Entrance, Grosvenor House, for Winter Ball

2215c

Depart Grosvenor House and return to No. 10

PAIRED AFTER 1900

MT Engagement Diary