Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 10 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

Thursday 10 July 1986

0900

Questions Briefing Team

0930-1000

Test Drive Rover 800 + Mr. Alison [Michael Alison] - Downing Street [Graham Day, Harold Musgrove, John Pullen, Jean Denton; Paul Channon: THCR6/2/2/144]

1000

Meeting of Ministers [Local Authority Finance: Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Chief Secretary [John MacGregor], Secretary of State for the Environment, Chief Whip [John Wakeham] + Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove]]

1100

Cabinet Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Lord Chancellor [Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone], 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 Defence [George Younger], 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 [David Young], Secretary of State for Education and Science [Kenneth Baker], Paymaster General [Kenneth Clarke], Chief Secretary, Treasury [John MacGregor], Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [Paul Channon], Secretary of State for Scotland [Malcolm Rifkind], Secretary of State for Transport [John Moore]

Also present: Parliamentary Secretary, Treasury [John Wakeham], Also present: Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office [Baroness Young]

Sir Robert Armstrong [Sir Robert Armstrong], Mr. D. F. Williamson [David Williamson], Mr. C. L. G. Mallaby [Christopher Mallaby], Mr. A. J. Langdon [A. J. Langdon], Mr. M. J. Eland [M. J. Eland]

1300

Lunch and Questions Briefing

1430

Depart for House of Commons

1515

Questions H/C

1535

Depart for Finchley

1615

Finchley Carnival

1715

Return to No. 10

1815

Change

1830-2000

Cocktail party for Members and wives

1900

Went to House of Commons to Vote and returned immediately to cocktail party at No. 10

Supper in Flat

PAIRED ALL DAY

MT Engagement Diary