Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 21 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

Tuesday 21 October 1980

0800

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

0900

John Biffen & Michael Alexander for first meeting for Lord Mayor’s Banquet Speech

1030

Mrs. Sparkes (wife of British businessman held in Baghdad) [via MODBA (Michael Alexander)]

1100

High Commissioner of Papua New Guinea, Dr. Alexis Sarei to present letter [Mr Martin 233.3827]

1300

Lunch with Private Secretaries

1400-1430

Mrs. Scrimgeour

1500

Meeting of Ministers (Public Expenditure, Nationalised Industries, EFLs, British Shipbuilders Finance) [Chancellor Ex (Sir Geoffrey Howe), Chief Sec (John Biffen), Home Sec (Willie Whitelaw), S/ Industry (Sir Keith Joseph), S/ Social Services (Mark Carlisle), S/ Trade (John Nott), RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong) & Mr Ibbs]

1715

Sir William Lithgow and S/S for Industry [Sir Keith Joseph]

1745

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe], S/S for Energy [David Howell], Paymaster General [Angus Maude] - miners’ pay [S/S for Employment (Jim Prior)]

1800

Kept free for speech

2010

Left No. 10

2015

Opened new section of National Gallery +CP [Colin Peterson]

Buffet supper - met by Lord Annan

2200

Kept free for Queen’s Speech meeting

MT Engagement Diary