Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 4 December 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 4 December 1980

0900

Meeting of Ministers on progress of Fisheries negotiations [FCS (Lord Carrington), Minister for Agriculture Alick Buchanan-Smith, S/ Scotland (George Younger)]

0925

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

0930

E [Willie Whitelaw, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Peter Walker, Michael Heseltine, Jim Prior, Sir Keith Joseph, David Howell, Lord Carrington, Lord Soames, John Nott, John Biffen]

1100

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 and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1545

Mr. Henry Kissinger [Brief from D. Neelands]

1630

1745

S/S Industry [Sir Keith Joseph] and S/S Environment [Michael Heseltine] on PSA

1800

Mr. Ramphal [Sec. Mrs Cummings]

1900

Changed

1920

Left No. 10

1930

Arrived for presentation of medal to Mr. Henry Moore by Chancellor Schmidt

2015

Dinner for Herr Schmidt at the German Residence, Belgrave Square [Brief from David Neelands]

2200

Three Line Whip [PM paired all day]

MT Engagement Diary