Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012: Olympic Truce

Lord Mawhinney Excerpts

Wednesday 15th December 2010 Lords Chamber

[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.

[Lord Mawhinney]

My Lords, my noble friend has said that she is open to at least considering suggestions. Would the Government be willing to consider the possibility of linking the observance of an Olympic Truce by a country with its participation in the following Olympics?

[Baroness Garden of Frognal]

My noble friend makes an extremely interesting proposal. Given that we are at the stage of welcoming suggestions and proposals, perhaps we could have that question in writing and begin to develop some ideas around it.