Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 29 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 29 July 1986

0845-0930

Secretary of State for Education and Science [Kenneth Baker] + Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove]

0930

Lord President [Willie Whitelaw] to discuss Address to Peers + SS [Stephen Sherbourne]

1000

Sir Alan Walters

1045

Sir Robert Armstrong [Robert Armstrong], Sir A. Duff [Sir Antony Duff] and Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks]

1130

Chief of Defence Staff [Admiral Sir John Fieldhouse] + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

1200

Nick Towers to say farewell

1215

Home Secretary [Douglas Hurd] and Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks]

Lunch with Private Secretaries [Wicks, Powell, Addison, Flesher, Norgrove, Ryder]

1400-1500

Secretary of State for Social Services [Norman Fowler] [NHS Organisation]

1500

To House of Commons to work on speech

1550

Lord Boyd Carpenter to collect PM from her room + SS [Stephen Sherbourne] H/C

1600

Address Conservative Peers + SS [Stephen Sherbourne] H/L

1650

Return to No. 10

1700-1715

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland [Tom King] and Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

1730-1910

Meeting of Ministers: Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Chief Whip [John Wakeham] and Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks]

1910

Attorney General [Sir Michael Havers] + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

1930-2015

Look in at Private Secretaries' Party (Garden, No. 10) [Party. Garden?]

Supper in Flat

MT Engagement Diary