Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 13 May 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 13 May 1986

0900

Questions Briefing Team

0930

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

1030

Secretary of State for Energy [Peter Walker], Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks] and Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove] [Electricity Supply Industry]

1100

Foreign Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Sir Antony Duff [Antony Duff], Sir Peter Marychurch [Peter Marychurch], Sir Robert Armstrong [GCHQ: Polygraph Pilot Scheme] [redaction in handwritten diary at this point]

followed by

1140

Foreign Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

1150-1230

Sir Robin Ibbs [Robin Ibbs] and Miss Kate Jenkins [Kate Jenkins] + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell] [Nimrod and value for money targets]

1230

Keep free for David Norgrove [David Norgrove]

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions H/C

1610

Return to No.10

1610-1730

Meeting of Ministers [Review Body Reports: Secretary of State for Defence [George Younger], Lord Chancellor [Quintin Hailsham], Chancellor Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Chief Secretary [John MacGregor], Secretary of State for Social Services [Norman Fowler], Mr. Luce [Richard Luce], Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Chairman, Paymaster General [Kenneth Clarke], Secretary of State for Education [Sir Keith Joseph], Sir Robert Armstrong, Mr. Unwin, Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove]]

1730-1820

Brinks with Education Backbench Committee + Mr. Alison [Michael Alison] [James Pawsey (chairman), Harry Greenway (vice-chairman), Gerald Bowden (joint secretary), Peter Bruinvels (joint secretary); Keith Joseph, Chris Patten, Bob Dunn, George Walden, Brian Griffiths: see THCR 2/6/3/25 part 4 f5]

1830

Audience, Buckingham Palace [HM The Queen]

Supper at House of Commons

2200

THREE LINE WHIP

MT Engagement Diary