Hugh Robertson: ...; BMX Supercross world cup; and FINA diving world series We have also won the right to host the following major sports events: IPC para athletics grand prix final 2013 UCI track world cup 2013 FIH hockey world league 2013 The Tour de France Grand Depart 2014 We are currently bidding to host more events including: The track cycling world championships (2016); The European judo championships...
Baroness Heyhoe Flint: ...150 years, so we are making progress. She is Heather Rabbatts, not a token appointment but a lady well steeped in the business of football knowledge as executive deputy chair of Millwall Football Club, to whom I apologise after they were beaten 2-0 on Tuesday by my beloved football team, Wolverhampton Wanderers. With a Government committed to breaking down gender equality barriers, how can...
Gregory Campbell: ...as a police officer, and she spent her entire career based in Strand Road. Although she was a dedicated police officer, let us remember that she was also rather more than that. She was a keen hockey player with the Owls club and was connected with the Girls' Brigade. Mr Campbell referred to the quote on Saturday from the district commander, Chief Superintendent Stephen Cargin, but it...
John Mason: ...Many of us think that a legacy comes after an event, but we are already benefiting from a legacy before the event. There is already community use of the venues. I believe that membership of Glasgow club, which is the membership system for those who use Glasgow’s gyms, has already increased by around 1,000. There have also been international competitions, such as the UCI track cycling...
Baroness Massey of Darwen: ...competitive sport-some do, but not many, although they can be active. People with disabilities can be, and are, active. Legacy is a continuum of participation activity, linking industry, schools, clubs, gyms, communities and families, and is continuing and sustained. Such a strategy would include volunteers, and I want to know whether there has been, or will be, any follow-up about...
Viscount Younger of Leckie: ...Olympic site into the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. On the Olympic Park, the Stadium, Aquatics Centre, Velodrome and Copper Box will be transformed into their final legacy configurations and the Hockey Arena moved to a new location in Eton Manor at the north of the park alongside. The Lee Valley White Water Centre, the Eton Dorney Rowing Centre, the Hadleigh Farm Mountain Biking Centre and...
George Adam: ...their issues and problems, get involved in sport and enjoy playing football. Seeing them progress has been extremely good. The group has got to the stage at which it is developing its own football club further; in fact, it is talking to the Scottish Football Association about having an acquired brain injury football league so that it can play other teams in a mini-SPL five-a-side league. I...
Barbara Keeley: ...Ohuruogu’s magnificent defence of her earlier performance, with a silver in the 400 metres; Rebecca Adlington’s bronzes in the 400 and 800 metres swimming; the women’s team bronze in hockey; Samantha Murray’s silver in the modern pentathlon; the bronze for Beth Tweddle—a wonderful gymnast at the end of her career—on the uneven bars; or even Lizzie Armitstead’s race for silver...
Hugh Robertson: ...Olympic site into the Queen Elizabeth Olympic park. On the Olympic park, the stadium, aquatics centre, velodrome and copper box will be transformed into their final legacy configurations and the hockey arena moved to a new location in Eton Manor at the north of the park alongside. The Lee Valley white water centre, the Eton Dorney rowing centre, the Hadleigh farm mountain biking centre and...
Carál Ní Chuilín: ...’s University playing fields, five sports were represented which children, particularly young girls, would never have had the opportunity to play. Those children came from GB, Girl Guides and club backgrounds and would never normally, for example, have had the opportunity to play camogie. The girls from camogie clubs might never have had the opportunity to play hockey or rugby, and they...
Michaela Boyle: ...will speak now about some of the sporting events in Strabane and further afield in west Tyrone. Strabane is the birthplace of Dr George Sigerson; he was born in Holy Hill in 1836. Our local Gaelic club is named after the esteemed Dr George Sigerson, and I declare an interest as a member of that club. The club has excellent minor and senior teams for both girls and boys, which are going...
Denis MacShane: ...helpers. If our poor Prime Minister goes for a ride on a horse, it makes the front page of The Times, and everyone mocks him and scorns him and says it is very serious. If Putin pulls on an ice hockey shirt and does a bit of midnight ice hockey, the editor of The Times is there, swooning at the feet of this majestic specimen of manhood. I do not expect the Chelsea football club programme,...
Hugh Robertson: ...of the opening ceremonies on the national economy. The GREAT campaign is designed precisely to make use of those opportunities. Through him, I would like to congratulate Brighton and Hove Albion, a club with which I have had dealings in the past, on its community work. My right hon. Friend the Member for Bath (Mr Foster) spoke about the use of local committees to ensure benefits. Like...
Mark Lancaster: There is a strong parallel. In 1913 the owners of Arsenal, Henry Norris and William Hall, moved the club away from Woolwich Arsenal and in the following year dropped the word “Woolwich” from the name to just “Arsenal”. In June 2002, AFC Wimbledon was formally established by the Dons Trust, and I congratulate AFC Wimbledon on its success in the past 10 years. However, as a result,...
Hugh Robertson: ...time to go into them, but I will mention a couple of factors. The measurement system is very tough and people have to play three separate instances of sport. People who play top league cricket or hockey generally train in the week and play at the weekend, so they fail the measure. The measure uses fixed telephone lines, so we are not convinced that enough young people are being picked up....
Baroness Garden of Frognal: ...or Sport England. However, as part of 2009-13 Whole Sport Plan awards, 34 sports receive targeted funding to deliver on children and young people interventions. The funding develops school-club links and volunteering opportunities to increase the number of junior club participants and volunteers aged between five and 19. The latest data show that there are 1.975 million junior club...
Patricia Ferguson: ...to make real progress in that area, we must devote much of our effort to our young people. We have to break the cycle that afflicts too many of our adult population, who probably played football, hockey or netball vigorously at school but did not continue when they left. I share the minister’s enthusiasm for the active schools programme, and I think that it is a key component of the...
Gerry Sutcliffe: I am grateful for that intervention. I understand the hon. Gentleman’s premise in terms of getting youngsters outside. School sport was fairly stereotypical in that girls played netball and hockey, boys played football, rugby and cricket, and basically that was it. The previous Government were proud—the Government’s misleading statistics come into play—of being able to widen the range...
Karen McKevitt: ...the motion and congratulate the Members who tabled it. I am delighted to speak because, like most Members in the Chamber, I have witnessed at close hand the community benefits that amateur sports clubs bring to their neighbourhood. I take the opportunity to congratulate Burren GFC on reaching the Ulster club final, albeit that it will be against Crossmaglen. However, it is great to see two...
Roseanna Cunningham: Since 2007, the Scottish Government has invested almost £14 million of cashback money in sports other than football, including rugby union, basketball, amateur boxing, athletics, hockey and badminton. We are continuing to encourage all sports governing bodies, and indeed individual clubs, to submit appropriate funding proposals for consideration for investment from the cashback for...
