Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 13 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 13 February 1986

0900

Questions briefing team

0930

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson] + Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove] (bilateral)

1000

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], Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster [Norman Tebbit], 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 2-3), Christopher Mallaby (items 2-3), Brian Unwin (item 4), A.J. Wiggins (item 4), A.J. Langdon (items 1 and 5), R. Watson (items 1 and 5)]]

[After cabinet – Meeting of Ministers (Territorials Formula) Secretaries of State for Scotland [Malcolm Rifkind], Wales [Nicholas Edwards] and Northern Ireland [Tom King], Secretary of State for the Environment [Kenneth Baker], Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster [Norman Tebbit], Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen], Chief Secretary [John MacGregor], Mr Unwin +NW [Nigel Wicks]]

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions H/C

1545

George Gardiner MP + colleagues and Mr. Alison H/C [Michael Alison]

Return to No. 10

1645

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson] + Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove]

1720

Chairman [Norman Tebbit] and Mr. Sherbourne [Stephen Sherbourne] [1715 Chairman +NW and MA [Nigel Wicks, Michael Alison]]

1815

Depart No. 10 + Mr. Wicks

1830

Audience, Buckingham Palace [HM The Queen]

2040