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Inquiry into participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with Sport Wales
Yes, would you be able to send us something in writing?
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Inquiry into participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with Sport Wales
We'll move on to Alun Davies.
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Inquiry into participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with Sport Wales
Thank you.
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Inquiry into participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with Sport Wales
Thank you, and just very briefly, because I'm aware that Alun will be wanting to come in, but, in terms of other ways in which you use the data that you collate, is the main way that you use that—is it to signpost, as you say, so that different partners can…
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Inquiry into participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with Sport Wales
No, go ahead. It's important.
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Inquiry into participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with Sport Wales
Okay. Before we move on to Alun, forgive me, Heledd, did you want to come in on something?
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Inquiry into participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with Sport Wales
Yes, sure.
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Inquiry into participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with Sport Wales
That's great.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Inquiry into participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with Sport Wales
We'll move on to questions from committee members, if that's okay, and we'll move to Carolyn Thomas first, who we have on the screen here.
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Inquiry into participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with Sport Wales
Yes, that makes sense, and we've been really keen in how the team has been framing this inquiry and taking into account what lots of stakeholders have said to us that, as you've been saying, it's so important not to look at this in a silo way because…
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Inquiry into participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with Sport Wales
Thank you for that, and Owen, I was really struck—I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on this as well—that in the written evidence that you submitted to us, you talked about how, actually, even when some of the structural barriers have been addressed…
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Inquiry into participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with Sport Wales
Yes, of course, you're welcome to do that.
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Inquiry into participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with Sport Wales
Yes, that is quite a long title. I'm not sure what that is in Welsh either. Thank you very much for that. If it's an okay with you, we'll move straight to the questions. Okay, we'll go straight into it: what do you think are the main barriers to participation…
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Inquiry into participation in sport in disadvantaged areas: Evidence session with Sport Wales
Welcome back to our session this morning—yes, we're still in the morning session. We move now to item 7 and back in public, namely the inquiry into participation in sport in disadvantaged areas. This is the first evidence session and we have Sport Wales with…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the meeting for items 4, 5, 6, and 9
We'll move now to item 3, Members, which is a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the meeting today for items 4, 5, 6 and 9. Are you content to accept that? Yes, so we'll move now into private session and return later for…
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President of National Library of Wales pre-appointment hearing
Thank you very much. Also, a transcript of today's proceedings will be sent to you to check. Thank you very much.
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President of National Library of Wales pre-appointment hearing
No, okay. So, if everybody's content, we'll bring the evidence session to an end. I'm not seeing anybody indicating, so thank you very much for being with us today. The process will be that we'll be completing a report that will be sent to the Welsh…
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President of National Library of Wales pre-appointment hearing
Thank you for that. Did Members have any other supplementary questions they'd like to ask? No, I can't see that there are any. Ashok, was there anything else that you'd like to mention that hasn't arisen so far?
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President of National Library of Wales pre-appointment hearing
Ashok, how do you think you will find the balance between keeping independence from the Welsh Government, and yet working with the Welsh Government in order to seek to—? That relationship of influence, and yet needing to be quite arm's length—how do you think…
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President of National Library of Wales pre-appointment hearing
Okay. Back to Tom.
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President of National Library of Wales pre-appointment hearing
Tom, before we come back to you, if that's all right, I think Alun wants to come in on this point, if you'll let him. Okay. Alun.
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President of National Library of Wales pre-appointment hearing
Thank you. We'll move on to Tom Giffard.
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President of National Library of Wales pre-appointment hearing
We'll move on to Alun Davies.
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President of National Library of Wales pre-appointment hearing
Great. You're happy with that. We'll move to Heledd Fychan.
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President of National Library of Wales pre-appointment hearing
Thank you very much for that. We'll move on to Carolyn Thomas. By the way, I am looking down a lot, because I'm looking at the screen—that's the reason why. We'll move on to Carolyn Thomas.
