Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 31 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

Thursday 31 January 1980

0815

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe] [Public Expenditure]

0915

Messrs. [Derek] Howe, Gow, Ingham and Sanders

0930

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland [Humphrey Atkins] and Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw]

1000

Cabinet [Willie Whitelaw, Lord Hailsham, Lord Carrington, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Sir Keith Joseph, Francis Pym, Lord Soames, Jim Prior, Sir Ian Gilmour, Peter Walker, Michael Heseltine, George Younger, Nicholas Edwards, Humphrey Atkins, Patrick Jenkin, Norman St John-Stevas, John Nott, David Howell, Mark Carlisle, John Biffen, Angus Maude, Norman Fowler, Michael Jopling, Sir Robert Armstrong]

1300

Lunch in Study and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1600

Mr. Neil Marten - H/C

1630

Dr. [Gerard] Vaughan - H/C

1645

Mr. Stephen Hastings - H/C

1845

Secretary of State for Trade [John Nott]

1915

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

MT Engagement Diary