Frank McAveety: ...about how we can use all the partners. If we have an historic concordat with local government—I presume that we do—we need to think about how we can engage with local government and community clubs to increase the infrastructure and development opportunities at local level. The Local Government and Communities Committee's report discussed the issue of street traders. Having read the...
Gerry Sutcliffe: ...through Sport England which dispenses Exchequer and lottery funds for sport The tables show how much Exchequer and lottery funding has been allocated through Sport England to (a) amateur sports clubs and (b) sport in schools in (i) Southend and (ii) Essex. Amateur sports clubs £ Essex Southend 1997-98 817,276 34,048 1998-99 898,625 0 1999-2000 2,811,613...
Christina McKelvie: We know of sports clubs not being able to afford the fees to use PPP/PFI schools. One hockey team from Falkirk travelled to Bathgate to play because that was cheaper than booking into the school that it had always used.
Kevin Brennan: ...beyond the bounds of the school playing fields, which, of course, we are now protecting in a way that they have never been protected before. It is reaching into local communities, where sports clubs and facilities are springing up, organised by creative and committed volunteers. I recently went along to the new Wembley stadium to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the playing for success...
Dan Norris: ...were not only for the work force; they were available for use by the local community and people further afield. Indeed, Keynsham relies heavily on those facilities for sports such as cricket, hockey and football. In fairness to Cadbury's, it has indicated to me that it intends to keep the Fry club—the on-site sporting and social centre—so that it can be used even if the factory is...
Alastair Ross: ...with regard to those community projects that, over the years, have benefited from lottery money to fund new AstroTurf pitches and tennis courts, or to provide additional equipment for sports clubs. Clearly, such a dramatic impact on sports funding is not in the best interests of those of us in Northern Ireland who love sport. Anything that has a negative impact on community sport is not to...
Edwin Poots: ...Ireland. Equally, the great performance of the Irish team in the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2007 is fresh in our minds. Northern Ireland is also savouring the unique feat of the Ulster ladies hockey team in winning the inter-provincial championships this year. Furthermore, Northern Ireland has gradually established itself on the national and international stage as a venue for major sporting...
Richard Caborn: That is right. We promised in our last manifesto to move towards the population having multi-sports clubs within 20 minutes' travel. That is the aspiration, and we are driving matters in that direction. The key is in getting sports to come together and deliver multi-sports facilities. We can look to the past and to the continent. Why is the fall-off rate of young people doing exercise when...
Rosemary McKenna: ...me back to the distant past when he talked of playing rugby in cold, wet conditions. It reminded me of getting up very early on a Saturday morning when I was a teenager, going on to the red blaes hockey pitch and being whacked across the shins by a hockey ball or hockey stick. It was incredibly cold. I agree that that is not necessarily a reason for people not to take part in sport, but...
Richard Caborn: £60.1 million has been committed to date to the support of 1,018 sports facilities projects through the Community Club Development Programme (CCDP). Sports benefiting from CCDP in the period 2003-06 include: cricket, football, tennis, rugby football league, rugby football union, netball, rowing, swimming, badminton, cycling, canoeing, gymnastics, judo, basketball, hockey, and table tennis. A...
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many (a) football, (b) rugby, (c) hockey, (d) tennis, (e) cricket, (f) swimming and (g) gymnastic clubs there were in (i) each London borough and (ii) London in the last year for which figures are available.
Lord Adonis: ...of sport and team sport, reversing the lamentable trend highlighted by the noble Baroness that has taken place in the previous 20 years. We have invested £978 million in our PE, School Sport and Club Links strategy with the target of ensuring that, within and beyond the curriculum, 75 per cent of pupils by this year and 85 per cent of pupils by next year engage in at least two hours of...
Anne Moffat: ...for their interventions, but I want to finish with some words of warning. Where will this process end? Will the same measures be introduced in rugby in Scotland, in athletics, in cricket, in hockey or in netball? We are talking about non-profit-making clubs, and what is good for the goose, as they say, is good for the gander.
Owen Paterson: ...ends tomorrow. I, too, was a keen bicyclist when I was younger. There was one sport that no one has mentioned, which is bicycle polo. All that is required is an old bike, equipment such as an old hockey stick or cricket bat and any old ball, and it is a good use of grounds—football or rugby grounds, or whatever—that are too hard to play those games on. A minimum of only two players is...
Angela Smith: ...people. The voluntary sector, in particular, is much better placed in many ways to provide those facilities; indeed, it is already doing so on a significant scale. In my city, we have many sports clubs working right across the local authority boundary. Let us not forget the usual groups, well established in this country, such as the Guides, the Scouts and the Woodcraft Folk, which was...
Richard Caborn: I have not written to rugby league or rugby union clubs, nor to cricket clubs or those of other team sports. In that respect, we might even think of ice hockey, which is another contact sport. Yes, I have raised the subject with the football authorities, but I might also raise with them—indeed, I thank them for it—the fact that, as my hon. Friend said, the vast majority of players not...
Baroness Billingham: ...least three hours of PE in both primary and secondary schools. I well remember my own children in the local comprehensive school having a lunch break of one and a half hours to allow them time for hockey practice, netball practice, gym club, badminton—the list was endless. Then after school there were midweek matches and, yes—wait for it—Saturday morning matches against other schools...
Yvette Cooper: ...of the award winning Old Laban dance centre in Lewisham; £100,000 for the refurbishment of The Broadway arts venue and training facility in Barking; The acquisition of a former factory sports club, in Gravesend, and its transformation into a sport, social and cultural asset for the community. Over £20 million of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's funding is going into the...
Richard Caborn: ...an overview of performances across UK teams. Darlene Harrison Coaching Consultant UK Sport Attendance at swimming holding camp on Gold Coast and coach seminar at Essendon football club. Pre-arranged meetings with elite coaches across sport in respect of potential future coaching need and numbers for 2012. Lord Patrick Carter(20) Chair Sport England Representing Sport...
Richard Caborn: Sixteen National Governing Bodies for Sport and the community sports clubs affiliated to them have received awards from the Community Club Development Fund in the period 2003 to date as follows: £ NGB Year 1 (2003–04) Year 2 (2004–05) Year 3 (to date) (2005–06) All England Netball Association 436,500 222,665 781,547 Amateur Rowing Association 1,657,056 199,445...
