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House of Lords Official Report Vol. 726 Thursday No. 135 31 March 2011 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) HOUSE OF LORDS OFFICIAL REPORT ORDER OF BUSINESS Questions Olympic Games 2012: Olympic Truce Trade Unions: Ballots House of Lords: Prayers EU: European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism Business of the House Timing of Debates Draft Defamation Bill Membership Motion Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (Amendment of List of Responders) Order 2011 Charities (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Order 2011 Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 1943 (Time Limit for Appeals) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 Pensions Appeal Tribunals Act 1943 (Armed Forces and Reserve Forces Compensation Scheme) (Rights of Appeal) Regulations 2011 Motions to Refer to Grand Committee Economy: Growth Debate NHS: Standards of Care and Commissioning Debate Inter-parliamentary Scrutiny: EUC Report Motion to Endorse Written Statements Written Answers For column numbers see back page £3·50 Lords wishing to be supplied with these Daily Reports should give notice to this effect to the Printed Paper Office. 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All prices are inclusive of postage. © Parliamentary Copyright House of Lords 2011, this publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Parliamentary Click-Use Licence, available online through The National Archives website at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/our-services/parliamentary-licence-information.htm Enquiries to The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU; email: [email protected] 1335 Olympic Games 2012: Olympic Truce[31 MARCH 2011] Olympic Games 2012: Olympic Truce 1336 familiar with it. It is encouraging to hear today a House of Lords significant change in the Minister’s reply. In the past, however charmingly she has replied, all that she has Thursday, 31 March 2011. sent the noble Lord has been a “Dear John”, but maybe things are now changing. Having watched the 11 am cricket yesterday, do we not remind ourselves of the potency of sport for peaceful objectives? Having seen Prayers—read by the Lord Bishop of Ripon and Leeds. Pakistan and India sitting side by side and embracing each other, I wish his project well. I hope that the Olympic Games 2012: Olympic Truce Minister will continue to use that as an example of Question sport and peace and the ways in which they can go together. 11.06 am Baroness Garden of Frognal: I thank the noble Asked By Lord Bates Baroness for her kind words in among that. I am not To ask Her Majesty’s Government what specific quite sure where the question was, but if it was whether initiatives they are planning to implement the Olympic we agree that sport is an excellent forum for international Truce for the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic co-operation, the answer is yes, indeed we do. The Games. Government have some major programmes to encourage sport among young people as well as to support our major adult sporting events. Baroness Garden of Frognal: My Lords, the UK will be promoting a fresh resolution calling for the continued observance of the Olympic Truce for the Lord Higgins: My Lords, does the noble Baroness 2012 Games and is currently working with overseas accept that some of the finest athletes in the world, partners in 15 countries and planning activity in a particularly long-distance runners, come from areas further three on International Inspiration, a sports that are now troubled by war in one form or another? programme targeted at countries in development. Other The idea of the truce was that people in those initiatives are being considered by the Foreign and circumstances could get to the Games. Does she accept Commonwealth Office and we expect to learn the that we should do everything possible to ensure that results of this work shortly. The London Organising good athletes can do so? Will she also recognise that Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games is few athletes remain at the top for more than four years also undertaking truce-related programmes. and that if they are prevented from attending they have therefore lost a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? Lord Bates: I thank my noble friend for that Answer Not only are they disappointed, but so are the people and for the encouraging progress that has been made. who hoped to beat them. Can she confirm that this Olympic Truce resolution is a resolution of the General Assembly of the UN, Baroness Garden of Frognal: My noble friend speaks which quite specifically calls on all signatories to pursue from his own experience as an Olympic athlete and initiatives for peace and reconciliation in the spirit of of course I agree with what he says. We in the UK will the ancient Games during the London 2012 Games? do what is in our power to encourage people from This year, the resolution will be not only signed but disadvantaged countries to attend and compete in the proposed by the United Kingdom Government. Does Games. A great deal of that depends on the response she agree that it therefore presents a unique opportunity from those individual countries as well but, as I have to hand on a legacy from the London 2012 Olympic said, that will not stop us trying. Games not only in medals won and land reclaimed but in the lives changed and saved and in the health and humanitarian aid extended? Lord Low of Dalston: My Lords, what success are the Government having in brokering a truce between the noble Lords, Lord Coe and Lord Moynihan? Baroness Garden of Frognal: I thank my noble friend and of course I agree with what he says. He is tireless in his work to achieve successful outcomes for Baroness Garden of Frognal: The noble Lord raises 2012 through the Olympic Truce, which indeed presents an issue that has been in the news just recently. The a unique opportunity for the UK to lead on proposals two organisations that the noble Lords represent normally for the sort of peace and reconciliation that he suggests. work closely together for the good of the outcomes of In previous years, these truce agreement proposals the Olympic Games and I have no doubt that, in the have not resulted too often in major outcomes, but greater interests of delivering a highly successful 2012 that will not prevent us from trying again this year. It Olympic Games, any disputes will soon be resolved. will, of course, be for the United Nations to agree policy actions. Lord Faulkner of Worcester: My Lords, does the Minister agree that it would be in the interests of Baroness Billingham: My Lords, we must congratulate peace and reconciliation if the directors of Tottenham the noble Lord, Lord Bates, on his tenacity; I think Hotspur Football Club were to abandon their that this is the third or fourth time that we have extraordinary attempt to go to judicial review over the debated this and we are all becoming much more legacy issue of the stadium? 1337 Olympic Games 2012: Olympic Truce[LORDS] Trade Unions: Ballots 1338 Baroness Garden of Frognal: My Lords, Tottenham on 16 February the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hotspur’s decision is probably slightly wide of the Wallace of Tankerness, opposed the Rooker amendment Olympic Truce, but I note what the noble Lord says. on the ground that it would be a deterrent to people turning out because they might not know whether Lord Addington: Would it not be good if the idea of their votes would count, are workers not deterred as a truce were extended by this Government and indeed well? Secondly, if on 5 May the turnout is 37 per cent, all our allies to all the major sporting gatherings—world will the Government repeat Mr Clegg’s comment on cups, championships and so on—so that those taking the Barnsley by-election that 37 per cent was “an part paid some attention to international activity outside? abysmally low turnout”, or—surprise, surprise—will That would be a real legacy to take away and it would they say, “That was astonishingly high”, and that not be confined to an event that takes place once every 25 per cent or something like that is a perfectly good four years. basis on which to change our constitution? Baroness Garden of Frognal: I entirely agree with Lord De Mauley: My Lords, the two cases are my noble friend.
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