Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 22 April 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 22 April 1980

0800

Breakfast [Sir Geoffrey Howe, Sir Keith Joseph, John Biffen & John Nott]

1000

HRH Prince Andrew arrived

1015

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

1045

Meeting of Ministers to discuss Chief Scientist [S/Energy (David Howell) Min/ CSD (Paul Channon), Sir Ian (Bancroft), RA (Sir Robert Armstrong)]

1115

Meeting of Ministers to discuss Civil Service paper [Chancellor (Sir Geoffrey Howe), Home Sec (Willie Whitelaw), Mr Channon, Sir Derek Rayner & RA (Sir Robert Armstrong)]

1215

Lord Chancellor [Lord Hailsham] [Re: Bill of Rights]

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1355

HRH Prince Andrew departed

1515

Questions

1530 onwards

[Running Three Line]

1600

S/S Education [Mark Carlisle] on comprehensive re-organisation proposals - H/C

1800-1900

Ronnie Butt for Interview - H/C

Dined at H/C [+Ian Gow]

MT Engagement Diary