Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 22 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

Monday 22 December 1980

0830

Hair

1000

Meeting: sales to UAE [United Arab Emirates] [Defence]

1030

[Media]

1045

[Tours meeting]

1130

Baroness Young [for general chat]

1200

Sir James Goldsmith

1230

[John Vereker for News of the World article] Lunch in flat

1400

Meeting of Ministers re nationalised industries financing and effect on PSBR [S/ Industry (Sir Keith Joseph), Chancellor (Sir Geoffrey Howe), S/ Energy (David Howell), Wass, Ryrie, Carey, Maitland]

1500

Meeting of Ministers (Austin Pearce, Sir Frederick Page, Lord Strathcona and Sir Frank Cooper)

1545

Chairman [Lord Thorneycroft] and Tom Boardman [Ian Gow note in THCR 2/6/2/16 Part 2]

1600

Mr. Ray Whitney, MP [+Ian Gow, David Wolfson & Clive Whitmore. RW urging a PM’s Department - account in THCR 2/6/2/138 Part 2. Whitmore timed meeting as beginning 1630]

1630

Professor Brian Griffiths, Mr. Middleton and the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe] (monetary policy)

1730

Meeting of Ministers: Foreign Secretary [Lord Carrington] and S/S Defence [Francis Pym] re SAS

MT Engagement Diary