408:. He was chairman of the Conservative Parliamentary Committee on Sport (1981â84), vice-chairman of the All-Party Football Committee, secretary of the Conservative Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee (Africa) 1982â83, and was a member of the International Executive Committee of "Freedom in Sport". He was also treasurer of the Anglo-Gibraltar Group, 1981â82, and was secretary (1983â87), and chairman (1987) of the British-South Africa Group. He was elected vice-president of the Federation of Conservative Students in 1986 and was governor of the Sports Aid Foundation (Eastern Region), 1985â96. He was a member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Agriculture 1985â88.
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