Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 16 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

Tuesday 16 December 1980

0800

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

0900

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

0915

John Hoskyns (information technology)

0930

Sir Hector Laing

1000

Sir John Greenborough

1030

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]

1230

Mr. Ibbs (BL)

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1530

Statement on RSG

1630

Mr. du Cann (re Treasury and CSD merger)

1715-1815

1922 Executive - Mr. du Cann’s Room, H/C

1830

Audience

1930

Plowden Group Dinner +TL [Tim Lankester]- Shell Centre [Host: [Mr Baxendell of Shell] Informal [Dinner & parking for Driver & Tec] [Mrs Ewart 934.2773]]

2200

Three Line: Vote

MT Engagement Diary