Monday 12 December 1983
0830 Hair
1000-1030 Media
1045 Tom Arnold, MP
1100 Lord Thomas
1200 Chief Whip [John Wakeham]
1215 Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Home Secretary [Leon Brittan], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen] and Chairman [John Gummer]
1300 Media lunch
1445 Meeting of Ministers re Lebanon [Material from handwritten original of the 1983 appointment diary: S/ Def (Michael Heseltine) & FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe)
+Chief of Defence Staff (Field Marshal Sir Edwin Bramall).]
1630 Depart for House
1645 Tea with Mr. Speaker [Bernard Weatherill]
1715 Depart House of Commons
1730-1830 Meeting with Engineering Industries Council at Vickers House, Millbank [Material from handwritten original of the 1983 appointment diary: +AT (Andrew
Turnbull).] [see THCR 6/2/2/74 f33 for list of Engineering Industries Council members]
[Material from handwritten original of the 1983 appointment diary: Return to No. 10 or House of Lords if running late.]
1900 for 1930 Dinner with Conservative Women Peers and MPs - Cholmondely Room, H/L (informal) [Material from handwritten original of the 1983 appointment
diary: No speech. Informal. +MA (Michael Alison) (no DT).] [Peeresses: Baroness Airey of Abingdon, Baroness Carnegy of Lour, Baroness Cox, Baroness Elles,
Baroness Elliot of Harwood, Baroness Faithfull, Baroness Gardner of Parkes, Rt Hon Baroness Hornsby-Smith, Baroness Lane-Fox, Baroness Macleod of Borve,
Baroness Northchurch, Baroness Pike, Baroness Platt of Writtle, Baroness Sharples, Baroness Trumpington, Baroness Vickers. Members of Parliament: Lynda
Chalker, Janet Fookes, Peggy Fenner, Elaine Kellett-Bowman, Jill Knight, Ann McCurley, Rt Hon Sally Oppenheim, Elizabeth Peacock, Marion Roe, Angela
Rumbold, Ann Winterton; see THCR 1/7/7 f8 also for menu]
Paired all day
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