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 16 December 1980

0800   Breakfast [Sir Geoffrey Howe, Sir Keith Joseph & John Biffen] [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [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 [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: Host: [Mr Baxendell of Shell]
              Informal [Dinner & parking for Driver & Tec] [Mrs Ewart 934.2773].]
2200   Three Line: Vote

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