MT Engagement Diary

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	THCR 6/1/2/2
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 8 January 1980

               [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [Mr Hardy: To present Maharishi award: CS [Caroline Stephens].]
0930   Sir Robert Armstrong and Sir Ian Bancroft [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: & Mr Whitmore.]
1000   Mrs. Scrimgeour [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [all day if possible].]
1130   Meeting of Ministers: Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw], S/S Employment [Jim Prior], Chief Secretary [John Biffen], Attorney General [Sir Michael Havers],
              Adam Butler, Paymaster General [Angus Maude]
1500   Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Lord Carrington]
1600   Look in at European Democratic Group - Church House
1700-1900   Meeting with colleagues to discuss local government: Lord Thorneycroft, Sir Frank Marshall, S/Ss the Environment [Michael Heseltine], Social Services
               [Patrick Jenkin], Education [Mark Carlisle], Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw], Chief Secretary [John Biffen], Chief Whip [Michael Jopling].

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