Tuesday 15 April 1986
0850
Photograph with Scottish Internationals Football Association + Secretary of State for Scotland [Malcolm Rifkind], Secretary of State for Defence [George Younger], Chief Secretary [John MacGregor] and Mr. Coe
0900
Questions briefing
0930
[Stephen Egerton +CDP [Charles Powell]]
1005
Mr. Tebbit [Norman Tebbit]
1000
[Meeting of Ministers [Education – Radical Options: Secretary of State for Education [Sir Keith Joseph]; Chairman [Norman Tebbit], Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson] +NW [Nigel Wicks]] [cancelled for Libya cabinet?]
1020
Lord Chancellor [Lord Hailsham]
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], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen], Secretary of State for Health and Social Services [Norman Fowler], [Norman Tebbit], 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, D.E.J. Jago]
1100-1145
[Meeting of Ministers [Economic Summit: Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], +CDP [Charles Powell], +DN [David Norgrove], +RTA [Sir Robert Armstrong]] [cancelled for Libya cabinet?]
1125
Mr. Cranley Onslow MP
1200
[Jack Peel +DN [David Norgrove]] [cancelled for Libya cabinet?]
1300
Lunch and Questions Briefing
1430
Depart for House of Commons
1515
Questions H/C
Statement on Libya
Return to No.10 [c1700]
1715
[Chancellor of the Exchequer? [Nigel Lawson]]
[Clear Boxes] [cancelled for Libya speechwriting?]
Speech writing
Working supper
PAIRED ALL DAY