Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 25 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 25 March 1986

0900

Questions Briefing Team

0930

Lord President and Mr. Wicks [Willie Whitelaw and Nigel Wicks]

1000-1030

Mr. Jack Hennessey: Chairman Credit Suisse First Boston + Sir Alan Walters and Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove]

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], [Norman Tebbit], Secretary of State for Northern Ireland [Tom King], 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 – Attorney-General [Sir Michael Havers] Chief Whip [John Wakeham]; Secretariat – Sir Robert Armstrong, Christopher Mallaby (items 2-3), Brian Unwin (item 4), A.J. Wiggins (item4), A.J. Langdon (item 1), R. Watson (item 1)]

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions H/C

Sit in for Statement

1630

Mr. Cranley Onslow MP H/C

1700

Mr. Maguinness [Ken Maginnis] (Irish MP) H/C

1715

Secretary of State for Scotland [Malcolm Rifkind] and Mr. Wicks [general chat]

1820

Depart No. 10 + Mr. Wicks

1830

Audience [HM The Queen] + Mr. Wicks Buckingham Palace

1950

Return to No. 10

Supper in Flat

PAIRED FOR 1900 VOTE

MT Engagement Diary