Emma Harper: ...under-19 European championship and culminating in the biggest event in women’s golf—the 2019 Solheim cup. I must also mention sport in my South Scotland region. This year, the International Ice Hockey Federation women’s ice hockey world championships took place in Dumfries, at the outstanding Dumfries ice bowl. I attended a few of the matches, and the atmosphere was absolutely...
Mims Davies: DCMS arm’s length body, Sport England’s core market investment into England Hockey for 2017/21 is £9.83 million. £7m is targeted on interventions including developing a more flexible format, protecting key facilities and improving governance and the use of data in driving up participation. £2.83 m is for developing talent at grassroots level. Additionally, in the last 10 years, Sport...
Rebecca Pow: .... Women’s participation in the Olympics increased from 23% in 1984 to 46% in 2016. In Rio, women won more medals in a great many sports than the men, including, rowing, swimming, taekwondo, field hockey and judo. Winning gold in the women’s hockey in the London 2012 Olympics gave a huge boost to women’s hockey. Taunton Vale hockey club is testament to that. It is the eighth largest...
Baroness Byford: ...about the amount of corruption that there is in sport today. Sport has been an important part of my life, as I suspect it has for others taking part. It began with netball at school, followed by hockey, tennis and, in later years, golf. We were encouraged to take part and do our best but, as others have said, always to remember that we were part of a team. That is so important. I am glad...
Joe FitzPatrick: ..., more often. Sport has an important role to play. As members are well aware, we in Scotland have developed a world-class sporting system at all levels that connects sport in schools and education, club and community sport, and performance sport. Through our investment in facilities, we are providing participation opportunities for people and communities across Scotland. Since 2007,...
Keith Brown: ...in which there have been tremendous achievements by local people, such as Jamie and Andy Murray—triathlon, golf, swimming and curling. At the community level, Stirling is host to Central Athletic Club, which is one of the largest in central Scotland and is home to Scottish champions, record holders and internationalists. Since 2008, Stirling has produced leading athletes across a wide...
Philip Hollobone: Will the sports Minister join me in congratulating Kettering hockey club and all involved at the club on the wonderful achievement of being named by England Hockey as its sports club of the year 2018?
George Adam: ..., but they will have a healthy and balanced lifestyle. Sport also teaches us to set goals and to work hard to achieve them. Those are life lessons that we can probably all use. A number of Paisley clubs produced people who participated in the games. Kelburne Hockey Club, which is based in Paisley, provided quite a lot of players in the men’s field hockey team, and Basketball Paisley had...
Lord Addington: ...would like to say that it fits, but let us just say that I can still get into it. If you look at the Olympics for examples of how women’s sport has taken off, you will find the perfect example in hockey. The women’s hockey gold medal has done more to lift that sport than just about anything else I can think of. Women’s football has done very well too. I was kept up very late watching...
Gavin Newlands: ...communities and wider society. It would be remiss of me not to mention the achievements of Basketball Paisley. It is considered to be one of Scotland’s biggest and most successful basketball clubs, and since its inception its various teams have managed to bring 95 trophies back to Paisley. In fact, only last Friday night, the senior men’s team were crowned Scottish league champions, 18...
Sandra White: ...”. They truly do. I want to mention the continuing legacy of the 2014 games. Other members have spoken about sports membership. There has been a 13.7 per cent rise in membership of the Glasgow club. A point was raised previously about community sports hubs: 179 such hubs are up and running. That is the legacy of the Glasgow 2014 games, not just in Glasgow but throughout Scotland. That...
Jenny Gilruth: ...encouraging more girls to take up sport. Furthermore, the establishment of a women and girls in sport advisory group shows the Government’s commitment to showcasing the contributions of football clubs in delivering positive outcomes. Scotland will hold the first-ever women and girls in sports week, from 1 to 8 October this year, to promote the benefits of a more active lifestyle. Getting...
Philip Hollobone: If she will encourage greater participation in local hockey clubs.
Kit Malthouse: ...in grassroots sport. Members may not have noticed, but the Finance Bill will make investment in grassroots sport deductible for businesses, and that will be extremely welcome to football, cricket, hockey and many other clubs. I am proud to say that my business has sponsored local children’s football clubs at schools and so on. The more we involve business with school and grassroots sport...
Baroness Massey of Darwen: ...of providing global inspiration through her sports and also through her enterprising leadership in boardrooms. Her record was quite extraordinary: an England international in both cricket and hockey and honorary life member of the MCC, that male bastion. As captain of England between 1966 and 1976, she never lost a match. She had a magnificent test batting average. She was not only a...
David Rutley: ...across the course of life. They have rolled this down to different age groups. The Finnish National Board of Education has got funding and support available to ensure that many schools have clubs, 85% of which are related to physical activity and sports. We want to improve participation in sports and physical activity, and the Finns have made huge strides in that arena. As my hon. Friend...
Tracey Crouch: ...bodies to promote inclusion, celebrate diversity and tackle discrimination in all its forms, from grassroots to the elite. We also provided evidence of the support given by the sport NGBs to clubs to carry out a number of anti-homophobia initiatives, working with established organisations such as Pride Sports, Stonewall, Kick It Out and Football v Homophobia. At the same time, we recognise...
Claire Baker: ...since the 1980s. The tartan army is renowned and loved the world over, and the tens of thousands of Celtic fans in Seville for the UEFA cup final won UEFA’s fair play award. Scotland’s clubs are the best supported in Europe if we consider attendances on a per capita basis. Every weekend, thousands of fans travel to games to support their team, doing their club and country proud. Yes, a...
Fiona Bruce: ...and Goostrey station. Those groups are often the unsung heroes of our communities, yet they add so much to the enjoyment of our environment. I also welcome the inclusion of community amateur sports clubs in the Bill, because their contribution to our communities can be substantial. They of course contribute to health and wellbeing, but they also strengthen community ties and foster a sense...
Jo-Anne Dobson: T6. Mrs Dobson asked the Minister for Communities what support he is providing to hockey clubs to enable them to continue to attract world-stage events to Northern Ireland, especially given that, as he will be aware following his visit on Saturday, Banbridge stepped onto the world stage as its hockey club expertly hosted round one of the Euro Hockey League, with a historic performance from...
