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Wednesday, October 17, 1973
We will therefore set up a Council for Recreation and Sport under
the chairmanship of the Secretary for Home Affairs. This will bring together
a high-level group of persons with the special experience of the public
and private organisations controlling the main recreational facilities and
services in existence. So as to make it effective and provide it with
some administrative muscle it will be equipped with its own secretariat.
It will be the chosen channel for advice to Government in this field. In
particular it will advise on how to expand facilities, maximise their use,
increase supervision of activities in them, and advise the Government
on the extent and direction of financial assistance to amateur sport.
It will also make recommendations on any special services and facilitics it
considers necessary to meet the leisure time needs of young people. I
trust that these proposals will commend themselves to Honourable Members
and that they will agree that adequate funds should be made available
to implement the Council's recommendations. I hope it may bring now
purpose, new impetus and now thinking into what is being done in this field.
The Council
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