Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012: Olympic Truce

Lord Christopher Excerpts

Wednesday 15th December 2010 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Garden of Frognal]

My Lords, the coalition Government are committed to reviving the culture of competitive sports in schools in ways that achieve real value for the sport. The Schools Olympics is one of the programmes designed to encourage every pupil in the country to get involved in competitive sport and to give them an opportunity to do so; and to harness the power of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to inspire a generation of young people to take part in sport. There are a number of other initiatives which we hope will also contribute to that aim.

[Lord Christopher]

My Lords—

[Lord Mawhinney]

My Lords—

[Lord Christopher]

My Lords, given the importance of the question of the noble Lord, Lord Jopling, would the Minister be kind enough to tell the House what “in an appropriate way” means?

[Baroness Garden of Frognal]

That was in reference to the security around the Olympics. Matters of security are best left to the people who have responsibility for them. The Question was about the Olympic Truce. Obviously matters of security will be relevant to that but are not directly relevant to this particular Question.