§ Sir Dudley Smithasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent considerations he has given to the introduction of limited Sunday race meetings.
§ Mr. HurdI recently met representatives of the Jockey Club and the chairman of the Horserace Totalisator Board to hear their views on Sunday racing and betting, and I now await the report of the working party set up by the Jockey Club. In a speech at York on 9 December I mentioned my personal support for the principle of Sunday racing, but emphasised that this would in practice require a change in the law, and that much preparation for such a change would be needed.