Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 15 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

Thursday 15 May 1986

0900

Questions Briefing

0930

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson]

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], Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food [Michael Jopling], Secretary of State for Transport [Nicholas Ridley], Secretary of State for the Environment [Kenneth Baker], Paymaster General [Kenneth Clarke], Chief Secretary Treasury [John MacGregor], Secretary of State for Trade and industry [Paul Channon]; also present - Chief Whip [John Wakeham]; Secretariat – Sir Robert Armstrong [Robert Armstrong], David Williamson [David Williamson] (items 3-6), Christopher Mallaby [Christopher Mallaby] (items 3-6), A.J. Langdon [A. J. Langdon] (items 1-2), M.J. Eland [M.J. Eland] (items 1-2)]

1200c

Meeting of Ministers: [cost of security at Party Conferences: Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Home Secretary [Douglas Hurd], Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster [Norman Tebbit], Secretary of State for Northern Ireland [Tom King], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks]]

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions H/C

1545

Keep free [Mr. Enoch Powell, MP] [Enoch Powell] + Mr. Alison [Michael Alison] H/C

1630

Look in at David Evennett's Ladies' tea, Dining Room, H/C [David Evennett]

1715c

Return to No. 10

1730

Sir Robert Armstrong [Robert Armstrong] (minute of 23 April 1986) + Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks]

1830

Keep free for speech

Supper in flat: work on speech

PAIRED ALL DAY

MT Engagement Diary