Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 18 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

Tuesday 18 March 1986

0900

Questions Briefing meeting

0930

Meeting of Ministers [Scottish Teachers' Inquiry: S/S Scotland, S/S Education, Chief Secretary, Treasury, and Mr. Norgrove [Malcolm Rifkind, Sir Keith Joseph, John MacGregor, David Norgrove]]

1000

Lord Young + Mr. Norgrove

1030

Lord President [Willie Whitelaw] + Mr. Wicks

1100

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], [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]

1200

MISC 126

[H/S, CW: Sunday Trading +NW] [Home Secretary, Douglas Hurd], Chief Whip [John Wakeham] +NW [Nigel Wicks]]

1300

Lunch and Questions Briefing

1515

Questions H/C

1530

Budget H/C [Nigel Lawson]

1815

Depart House of Commons + Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks]

1830

Audience Buckingham Palace [HM The Queen]

To St. Stephens Club

1945c

Dinner with North West Members. Informal. [via Alistair Burt’s sec 219 3527 +MA (SS)] [Michael Alison, Stephen Sherbourne]

St. Stephens Club + Mr. Alison

2200

VOTE IF POSSIBLE H/C

2255

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