Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 20 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 20 May 1986

0900-0930

Questions Briefing

1015

Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Permanent Under Secretary [Sir Antony Acland], Sir P. Cradock [Percy Cradock], Mr. Powell [Charles Powell] [Libya]

1105-1200

Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe] followed by briefing meeting for Israel visit

1200

Meeting of Ministers [Review Bodies: Secretary of State for Defence [George Younger], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Lord Chancellor [Lord Hailsham], Secretary of State for Social Services [Norman Fowler], Mr. Luce [Richard Luce], Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Chairman [chairman], Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [Paul Channon], Secretary of State for Scotland [Malcolm Rifkind], Mr. Wiggins [A. J. Wiggins], Paymaster General [Kenneth Clarke], Secretary of State for Education and Science [Sir Keith Joseph], Secretary of State for the Environment [Kenneth Baker], Secretary of State for Wales [Nicholas Edwards], Secretary of State for Energy [Peter Walker], Secretary of State for Transport [Nicholas Ridley], Chief Secretary [John MacGregor], Sir Robert Armstrong, Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove]]

1300

Lunch and Questions Briefing

1515

Questions

1545

Cranley Onslow MP [Cranley Onslow] + Mr. Alison [Michael Alison] H/C

1615

Lord President [Willie Whitelaw] [re his visit to Moscow: + CD Powell [Charles Powell]] H/C

1630-1715

President of the European Parliament [Pierre Pflimlin] + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell] H/C

1715-1815

Meeting of Ministers [BL: Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [Paul Channon], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Chairman [chairman], Secretary of State for Transport [Nicholas Ridley], Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks]] H/C

To Buckingham Palace

1830

Audience Buckingham Palace [HM The Queen]

1950

Chancellor of Exchequer [Nigel Lawson] and Attorney General [Michael Havers] [not in handwritten diary] H/C

Supper in Flat

Running Three Line Whip from 1530 hours

MT Engagement Diary