Sport: Women and Girls
Baroness Sharples Excerpts(11 years, 9 months ago)
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Baroness Northover
The noble Baroness is right; Sport England and UK Sport are both encouraging national governing bodies of sport to increase the number of women on boards and the Government expect that all publicly funded sports bodies should have at least 25% women on their boards by 2017. That is very important but we also need more women as editors of newspapers, political programmes and so on.
Baroness Sharples
My Lords, does the Minister accept that the earlier you start to play sport, the more chance you have of playing golf, as I do, at the age of 90?
Zimbabwe
Baroness Sharples Excerpts(14 years, 1 month ago)
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Baroness Verma
My Lords, my noble friend’s suggestion is interesting but I think that I will not comment on it further.
Baroness Sharples
My Lords, can my noble friend say whether there are still restrictions on certain members of Mugabe’s family et cetera coming here?
Baroness Verma
Yes, restrictions are in place on Mr Mugabe’s family members who have been involved in abuses, as there are on some members of the Government of Zimbabwe.