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Sport: Women and Girls

Debate between Baroness Sharples and Baroness Northover
Thursday 7th March 2013

(11 years, 8 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Northover Portrait Baroness Northover
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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 Portrait Baroness Sharples
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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?

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