Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 22 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 22 May 1986

0830

Hair

0900

Questions Briefing

0935-1010

Chancellor of Exchequer [Nigel Lawson] + Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove]

1030

Cabinet [ Lord President [Viscount Whitelaw], Lord Chancellor [Lord Hailsham], Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Secretary of State for the Home Department [Douglas Hurd], Secretary of State for Energy [Peter Walker], Secretary of State for Wales [Nicholas Edwards], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen], Secretary of State for Social Services [Norman Fowler], Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster [Norman Tebbit], Secretary of State for Northern Ireland [Tom King], Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food [Michael Jopling], Secretary of State for the Environment [Nicholas Ridley], Secretary of State for Employment [Lord Young], Secretary of State for Education and Science [Kenneth Baker], Paymaster General [Kenneth Clarke], Chief Secretary [John MacGregor], Secretary of State for Scotland [Malcolm Rifkind], Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [Paul Channon], Secretary of State for Transport [John Moore], Chief Whip [John Wakeham] ]

1200

Meeting of Ministers [Territorial Expenditure: Lord President [Viscount Whitelaw], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen], Chairman [Norman Tebbit], Secretary of State for Wales [Nicholas Edwards], Secretary of State for Northern Ireland [Tom King], Secretary of State for Scotland [Malcolm Rifkind], Secretary of State for the Environment [Nicholas Ridley], Chief Secretary [John MacGregor], Sir Robert Armstrong, Mr. Unwin, Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks]]

1315

Lunch and Questions Briefing

1515

Questions

1545c

Return to No. 10

1705

Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks], Sir Robert Armstrong, Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove]

Keep free for speech

1930

Depart No. 10

1945

Arrive Hilton: Hertford Street Entrance

Met by Sir James Cleminson [James Cleminson]

1930 for 2000 CBI Annual Dinner + DT [Denis Thatcher], Mr. Ingham [Bernard Ingham] and Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove]

[Top table seating plan in THCR6/2/2/140 Part 1 f27: Sir Robert Andrew (Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office), Sir Ralph Bateman (Past-President, CBI), Mr Ian Lang (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Employment), Mr Terry Heiser (Permanent Secretary, Department of the Environment), Sir Maurice Laing (Past-President, CBI), Mr Ian Wrigglesworth (SDP Spokesman on Economic Affairs, Industry and Energy), Sir Kenneth Stowe (Permanent Secretary, Department of Health and Social Security), Mr Bryan Nicholson (Chairman, Manpower Services Commission), Sir Michael Quinlan (Permanent Secretary, Department of Employment), Mr John Garnett (Director, The Industrial Society), Sir Terence Burns (Chief Economic Adviser, HM Treasury), Mr John Cassels (Director-General, National Economic Development Office), Mr Denis Thatcher (), Lady Cleminson (), Sir Antony Acland (Permanent Under-Secretary of State and Head of the Diplomatic Service), The Rt Hon The Earl Jellicoe (Chairman, British Overseas Trade Board), Sir Campbell Fraser (Past-President, CBI), The Rt Hon Michael Jopling (Secretary of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food), The Rt Hon The Viscount Watkinson (Past-President, CBI), The Rt Hon Nicholas Edwards (Secretary of State for Wales), Mr David Nickson (President-Elect, CBI), MT Sir James Cleminson (President, CBI), The Rt Hon Nigel Lawson (Chancellor of the Exchequer), Sir Terence Beckett (Director-General, CBI), The Rt Hon Norman Fowler (Secretary of State for Social Services), Sir John Hedley Greenborough (Past-President, CBI), The Rt Hon John MacGregor (Chief Secretary to the Treasury), Mr Robin Leigh-Pemberton (Governor, The Bank of England), Sir Arthur Norman (Past-President, CBI), Sir Robert Armstrong (Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service), Mr Geoffrey Pattie (Minister of State for Industry and Information Technology), Sir Geoffrey Chandler (Director, Industry Year 1986), Sir Peter Middleton (Permanent Secretary, HM Treasury), Mr Parry Rogers (Chairman, Institute of Directors), Mr Tony Newton (Minister of State for Social Services and the Disabled), Sir Pat Lowry (Chairman, ACAS), Sir David Hancock (Permanent Secretary, Department of Education and Science), Mr John Owens (Deputy Director-General, CBI), Mr Peter Gregson (Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Department of Energy), The Rt Hon John Smith (Opposition Spokesman on Trade and Industry), Sir John Hoskyns (Director-General, Institute of Directors), Sir Crispin Tickell (Permanent Secretary, Overseas Development Administration), Mr Norman Willis (General Secretary, Trades Union Congress), Sir Michael Clapham (Past-President, CBI), Sir Brian Cubbon (Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Home Office), Sir Stephen Brown (Past-President, CBI), Mr Richard Lloyd-Jones (Permanent Secretary, Welsh Office)]

Black Tie: speech Hilton

PM PAIRED ALL DAY

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