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 13 May 1980

0800   Breakfast [Sir Geoffrey Howe, Sir Keith Joseph & John Biffen] [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: John Nott away.]
0915   Messrs. [Derek] Howe, Gow, Ingham and Sanders
0930   Herr Hans de Koster: President Consultative Assembly
1000   Lord Sieff +CW [Clive Whitmore]
1030   Meeting on Europe
1000-1200    [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [Trooping Rehearsal].]
1130   Mr. John Hume (from Northern Ireland)
1200   Mr. Cranley Onslow and Officers of Aviation Committee plus Mr. Adam Butler
1300   Lunch and Questions briefing
1515   Questions
1530   Statement on Civil Service - H/C [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: Statement by PM on Civil Service Department.]
1630   Minister of Agriculture [Peter Walker] - No. 10.
1715   Secretary of State for Industry [Sir Keith Joseph]
1730   President Bongo of Gabon and Interpreter plus Foreign Minister and Ambassador
1830   Audience
2015   Dinner for Sir Kenneth Berrill +DT [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: Black Tie.]
               [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: PM paired all day.]

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