asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the members who represented his Department on the working party which produced circular 70/78 "The Development of Sporting Talent in Children of School Age".

This joint circular was the end-product of recommendations made to my working party on centres of excellence by a small specialist group of its members. My Department was not represented on this specialist group, but was fully involved in consideration of its recommendations and on the drafting of the circular.