Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 17 March 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 17 March 1986

0830

Hair

1000

Lord Barber [Anthony Barber] + Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe] and Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

[1030 Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson] +DN [David Norgrove]]

1055

Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks]

1150

[1145 Chief Whip]

Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Mr. Wicks [+Michael Alison: see Alison engagement diary, THCR2/6/3/10]

1200

Chief Whip, Lord Privy Seal, Lord President and Chairman [John Wakeham, John Biffen, Willie Whitelaw, Norman Tebbit +Michael Alison: see Alison engagement diary, THCR2/6/3/10]

1305

Lunch with colleagues [+Michael Alison: see Alison engagement diary, THCR2/6/3/10] [THCR2/6/3/104 part 2 f93 lists as possible invitees: Willie Whitelaw, Paul Channon, John Biffen, Norman Tebbit, Ken Baker, Ken Clarke, John Wakeham + Nigel Lawson and John MacGregor]

1415c

Meeting of Ministers [BL: Lord President, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Chief Whip, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [Willie Whitelaw, Norman Tebbit, John Wakeham, Paul Channon]]

1500

Sir Oliver Wright + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

1520

Lord King + Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove]

1550

Depart for Ministry of Defence (North Entrance) + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

1600

Meeting with Mr. Weinberger [Caspar Weinberger] + Secretary of State for Defence [George Younger] and Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

1725

Return to No. 10

1745

Secretary of State for Defence (general chat) [George Younger] + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

1815

Change

1830-2000

Reception to commemorate Commonwealth Games +Mr. Thatcher [Denis Thatcher] and Mr. Addison [Mark Addison]

2030

Telephone call from Mr. Mulroney [Brian Mulroney] , Prime Minister of Canada.

To House of Commons

Supper with Mr. Alison [Michael Alison]

RUNNING TWO LINE VOTE

MT Engagement Diary