Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport – in the House of Commons am 2:30 pm ar 8 Mehefin 2009.
Gerry Sutcliffe
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) (Sport)
2:30,
8 Mehefin 2009
Through the PE and school sport strategy, £1.5 billion was invested in the five years to 2008. A further £783 million has been committed for the next three years. That has already helped to ensure that 90 per cent. of schools now provide cricket to their pupils. The "chance to shine" programme has also played a significant part in bringing the sport to young people, with 20,000 sessions delivered across 2,000 schools in 2008. In addition, Sport England has awarded nearly £38 million over the next four years to the cricket programmes.
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Michael Bourne
Posted on 16 Gor 2009 10:38 pm (Report this annotation)
But where is all the money (public money) actually going to? Only selected clubs are getting the cash Mr. Sutcliffe mentions, and then only on the condition that they submit satisfactory statistics every year.
I can point to club after club after club that complain that nothing is getting through to them. The Government may be 'trying' to do this and that, but it is tied to a political system that is flawed, when it comes to recreational cricket, and an idealogy that is more than forty years out of date. (P.S. - and it all starts in Europe.)