Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 20 October 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

Monday 20 October 1980

0830

Hair

1000

Media

1045

Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw] (Chief Whip [Michael Jopling] and Chairman [Lord Thorneycroft] away) [Handwritten original has Chairman in Japan and Chief Whip in Cheshire]

1130

S/S Trade [John Nott] plus two officials and Sir Robert Armstrong (briefing for new export committee)

1200

Interview with Women’s Realm: Mr. Fid Backhouse and photographer

1300

Lunch for industrialists +DT [via DW (Sir Douglas Wass)]

1430

S/S for Energy [David Howell] and Sir Donald Maitland

1545

Chief Secretary [John Biffen], Minister for Housing [John Stanley] and Sir Horace Cutler re GLC Housing Programme and Capital Fund [No papers required]

1615

Chief Secretary [John Biffen], Sir A. Rawlinson and Sir R. Armstrong re public expenditure

1710

Sir Maurice Hodgson, Chairman ICI

1800

[Brigadier Cowen of Government Hospitality Fund - POSTPONED]

1800

[Sir A. Rawlinson & Sir Robert Armstrong]

1845-2000

Sir Douglas Wass

MT Engagement Diary

Monday 20 October 1980

0830

1000

1045

1130

1200

1300

1430

1545

1615

1710

1800

1800

1845-2000

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