Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 6 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

Thursday 6 February 1986

0830

Hair [Flat]

0900

Questions Briefing Team [No.10]

0930

Meeting of Ministers (Tin) + Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove] [see No.10 conversation record, 6 Feb 1986, PREM19/1985 f254: Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [Paul Channon], Solicitor General [Sir Patrick Mayhew], Governor of the Bank of England [Robin Leigh-Pemberton], R. Mountfield and Lunn (DTI), P. Mountfield (Treasury), Saunders (Law Officers’ Department), Farrow (Bank of England) ]

1030

Cabinet [Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Lord Chancellor [Quintin Hailsham] Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe], 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], Secretary of State for Trade and industry [Paul Channon]; 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)]

After

E(A) + Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove] [Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], ] , Secretary of State for Energy [Peter Walker], Secretary of State for Wales [Nicholas Edwards], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen], 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 [Ken Baker], Paymaster General [Kenneth Clarke], Chief Secretary, Treasury [John MacGregor], Secretary of State for Scotland [Malcolm Rifkind], Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [Paul Channon], Chief Whip [John Wakeham]; Sir Robert Armstrong, David Williamson, Christopher Mallaby, A.J. Langdon, R. Watson

1300

Lunch and Questions Briefing

1515

Questions H/C

1600

Return to No. 10

1630

Lord MacAlpine [sic: Alistair McAlpine]

1700-1800

Meeting of Ministers: Mildenhall. [Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary, [Sir Geoffrey Howe] Secretary of State for Defence [George Younger], Sir Robert Armstrong, Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]]

1845

Depart No. 10 + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

Attend Reception at Portuguese Embassy, Belgrave Sq

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