Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 24 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 24 February 1986

0800

Hair Flat

0930

Meeting of Ministers [BL: Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Chairman [Norman Tebbit], Messrs. Wicks [Nigel Wicks] and Norgrove [David Norgrove]]

1100-1130

Prime Minister of Vanuatu [Father Walter Lini] + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell] [No.10 conversation record, 24 Feb 1986, PREM19/2002 f2 records that Lini had two officials with him; David Wilson was also present]

1150

Chief Whip [John Wakeham] + Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks] [+Michael Alison: see Alison engagement diary, 2/6/3/10]

1215

Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen], Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Chairman [Norman Tebbit] and Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks] [+Michael Alison: see Alison engagement diary, 2/6/3/10]

1300

Lunch for Colleagues [+Michael Alison: see Alison engagement diary, 2/6/3/10] [THCR2/6/3/140 Part 2 f93 lists Lord President (Whitelaw), Lord Privy Seal (John Biffen), Chairman (Norman Tebbit), Chief Whip (John Wakeham), Secretary of State for Education and Science (Sir Keith Joseph), Secretary of State for Defence (George Younger), Secretary of State for Energy (Peter Walker)]

1430

Secretary of State for Trade [Paul Channon] + Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove] [BL]

1500

Meeting of Ministers [Briefing for Switch meeting] + Mr. Addison [Mark Addison]

1530-1730

Meeting of Ministers and Industrialists [Switch to Engineering] Secretaries of State for Education and Science [Sir Keith Joseph], Employment [Lord Young], Trade and Industry [Paul Channon], Scotland [Malcolm Rifkind], Wales [Nicholas Edwards], Sir Robin Nicholson, Mr. Wiggins, Mr. Geoffrey Pattie, Mr. George Walden, Mr. Letwin [Oliver Letwin] and Mr. Addison

1725

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland [Tom King], Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Sir Robert Armstrong, Mr. Powell [Charles Powell] [Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary (Sir Geoffrey Howe)]

1800-1900

Drink with MPs and Mr. Alison No. 10 [Edwina Currie, Sir John Farr, Cecil Franks, John Hannam, Sir Anthony Kershaw, Albert McQuarrie, Nicholas Soames: [list at THCR2/6/3/26 part 1 f85]

1900c

To House of Commons

1930

Mr. Neil Kinnock, M.P., + Mr. Powell H/C [Northern Ireland]

Return to No. 10

Supper in Flat

PAIRED ALL DAY

MT Engagement Diary