, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Sure. I understand that—
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Does the Government know the relative delivery of active travel policies across the face of the country?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
The other thing, of course, that I was told today by pupils at my old school was facilities that are all-weather facilities. You have them here in Cardiff. You don't have them in anything like the same degree in places like Blaenau Gwent and potentially in…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
It's up to you to set them.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
That's fine. Thank you.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
I would simply ask the Minister if she could write to us with details of those pilots, providing the committee with the information about where they are and what you hope to achieve and progress, and perhaps write to the committee when you report—[Inaudible.]
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
But do you agree with it? That's the question.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
I'm grateful to you for that, Minister. Do you think that the Welsh Government should use an index of deprivation as a means of relatively investing more in areas where there is a higher degree of poverty or more people living in poverty than areas where you…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
But that reflects on your predecessors, rather than anything else, doesn't it?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
That's a very small amount of money in a Government. In governmental terms, that's a very small amount of money.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
I don’t think we can simply say there’s been underinvestment over the last 10 years, but before then there was a huge amount of investment. If we did the research and provided numbers I’m sure we would see that. All the issues that you’ve described are more…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Yes, but that’s comparing Wales with Wales. I’m comparing Wales with elsewhere.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
It’s all peanuts, isn’t it, really? I don’t disagree with what you’re saying and what you’re doing. I don’t disagree with the programmes that you’re running in terms of the Summer of Fun and the rest of it, but there’s a fundamental structural issue here…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
It's something new.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
Sorry, I was just intrigued by that.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
—if it's not football or rugby.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with the Welsh Government
I was just going to ask the Minister what the biggest participation sport is—
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny
Can I say it's something that I agree with very much, the approach that you're taking on these matters? It would be a useful thing if we could have a conversation about how we approach this relationship, because we attended the Committee of the Regions in…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny
I'm grateful to you, First Minister, and Europe is the spectre at the feast, I suppose, in all our conversations, and I think most of us—well, all of us—welcomed the appointment of Derek Vaughan as a representative to the European Union. And I'm interested in…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny
Thank you. There are two areas I'd like to cover with you, First Minister. Firstly, international agreements, and secondly, relationships within Europe. In terms of international agreements, we see a number of different debates and discussions we have around…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny
Not on that, no.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny
The purpose of a strategy and action plan is twofold, isn't it? It provides you with that context and that ability to plan the way forward and the rest of it—and I agree with you, I think the strategy should be a strategy and not a straitjacket, and I think…
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny
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, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny
Yes. It's an interesting thing, isn't it, Wales's relationship with the world. I think, sometimes, we almost fall into—. I don't want to say it's an error, but we see our relationship with the world almost in transactional terms. One of the things I was…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Scrutiny session with the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Yes. You've been very clear, Counsel General, and we're grateful for your clarity, in terms of the way in which you would like to see the recommendations of the Thomas commission taken forward, and I think Welsh Government has accepted all of the…
