HC Deb 07 February 1983 vol 36 c282W
Mr. Nicholas Winterton

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether her Majesty's Government monitored the extent to which sport in South Africa conforms with the requirements of the Gleneagles agreement; and whether he will make it his policy to renegotiate or withdraw fom the agreement in the light of progress made in this respect.

Mr. Macfarlane

The Government's policy has always been that we would seek modifications to the so-called Gleneagles agreement if justified by the racial integration of South African sport. Sport in South Africa cannot, however, be wholly isolated from the impact of the prevailing laws and institutions of apartheid.