§ 38. Mr. Cryerasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will consider introducing legislation to give power to sports councils to control participation by British subjects in sporting events abroad.
§ Mr. CroslandNo. But I have told the Sports Council that its grant-in-aid is provided on the understanding that it should not be used for grants towards the cost of either nationally representative visits to Rhodesia or any visits there or to South Africa for events where racial considerations would enter into team selection or spectators would be racially segregated.
My right hon. Friends the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales are writing in similar terms to the Sports Council for Scotland the the Sports Council for Wales.