 Williams served on several royal commissions and government committees: the Public Schools Commission (1965 – 1970), drug abuse (1971), gambling (1976 – 1978), the Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship (1979), and the Commission on Social Justice (1993 – 1994). "I did all the major vices," he said. While on the gambling commission, one of his recommendations, ignored at the time, was for a national lottery. (John Major's government introduced one in 1994.)
