Professional and Amateur Sport: Government Support Debate
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Viscount Waverley
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Professional and Amateur Sport: Government Support
Viscount Waverley Excerpts(3 years, 9 months ago)
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Baroness Barran (Con)
The Government are very keen to support all sports, for the reasons that we have already summarised, in terms of both their specific sporting contribution and their wider community contribution. Clearly rugby plays an important part and is very central in particular communities. We are going through this in detail with each of the governing bodies, looking at the needs of their specific sports, and will respond as quickly and as effectively as we can.
Viscount Waverley (CB) [V]
My Lords, great uncertainty exists for both professional and amateur equestrian athletes, who travel extensively to competitions with large horse-boxes around the continent. Are they exempt from needing an operator’s licence, which hauliers certainly need, or are these riders considered hauliers, which clearly they are not? What provisions are being made at Dover to cater for this form of transport?
Baroness Barran (Con)
The noble Viscount asks a very detailed question. If I may, I will respond in writing.