Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 8 January 1980

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/2
Editorial comments:	Taken from a typed version of the appointment diary prepared in the Garden Room at some point following MT’s resignation. The original remained in the custody of the Cabinet Office. Material has been added to this entry from the handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary, accessed at the Cabinet Office prior to transfer to TNA. The full text of that volume can be accessed here.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Tuesday 8 January 1980

[Mr Hardy: To present Maharishi award: CS [Caroline Stephens]]

0930

Sir Robert Armstrong and Sir Ian Bancroft [& Mr Whitmore]

1000

Mrs. Scrimgeour [all day if possible]

1130

Meeting of Ministers: Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw], S/S Employment [Jim Prior], Chief Secretary [John Biffen], Attorney General [Sir Michael Havers], Adam Butler, Paymaster General [Angus Maude]

1500

Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Lord Carrington]

1600

Look in at European Democratic Group - Church House

1700-1900

Meeting with colleagues to discuss local government: Lord Thorneycroft, Sir Frank Marshall, S/Ss the Environment [Michael Heseltine], Social Services [Patrick Jenkin], Education [Mark Carlisle], Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw], Chief Secretary [John Biffen], Chief Whip [Michael Jopling].

MT Engagement Diary