Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 1 July 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 1 July 1986

0900

Questions Briefing

0930

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

1000

Lord Young [David Young] + Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove]

1030

Keep free for Statement + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

1150

Depart No. 10 + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

1210

Arrive Victoria Station

1230

President of West Germany arrives [Richard von Weizsäcker]

1300

Lunch and Questions Briefing

1515

Questions

1530

Statement

1630

Mr. Prior MP [James Prior], Sir Peter Tapsell MP [Peter Tapsell], Mr. Gummer MP [John Gummer], Chief Whip [John Wakeham] + Mr. Flesher [Tim Flesher] [Sea Defences on the East Coast – H/C]

1700

Meeting of Ministers [BL: Secretary of State for Trade's minute of 20 June: Secretary of State for Trade [Paul Channon], Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster [Norman Tebbit], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Secretary of State for the Environment [Nicholas Ridley], Mr. Morrison [Peter Morrison], Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove]]

Return to No. 10

1730–1850

Sir Percy Cradock [Percy Cradock] + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

Change

1950

Depart No.10 + DT [Denis Thatcher]

2000

Arrive Buckingham Palace

2030

State Banquet + DT [Denis Thatcher] [HM The Queen, President Richard von Weizsäcker]

PAIRED ALL DAY

MT Engagement Diary