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Transcripts of every speech Clive makes

• Community Sports Facilities — [Mr Peter Bone in the Chair] (1 Feb 2012)

  Clive Efford: I agree with the Minister’s comments about the Football Foundation, which is an excellent organisation. It has been able to get more bang for its buck by attracting match funding. Is he suggesting that he will make money available to replace that match funding and that it will not require match funding in the future, because to go down that route means that we will get less for the money?

• Community Sports Facilities — [Mr Peter Bone in the Chair] (1 Feb 2012)

  Clive Efford: I agree with the Minister’s comments about the Football Foundation, which is an excellent organisation. It has been able to get more bang for its buck by attracting match funding. Is he suggesting that he will make money available to replace that match funding and that it will not require match funding in the future, because to go down that route means that we will get less for the money?

• Community Sports Facilities — [Mr Peter Bone in the Chair] (1 Feb 2012)

  Clive Efford: I am grateful for that. I suspected that that was the answer. School sport partnerships are for school-age children, not for 14 to 24-year-olds, so the survey did not compare like with like. My concern is that the figure has been used as an example. I think someone said that “prizes for all” was the previous Government’s policy on encouraging people to participate in sport....

• Community Sports Facilities — [Mr Peter Bone in the Chair] (1 Feb 2012)

  Clive Efford: It is a pleasure to join the debate under your chairmanship, Mr Bone, for the first time, I believe. I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Bristol North West (Charlotte Leslie). She has been a doughty fighter on behalf of sport in general. She has made many contributions both in the Chamber and Westminster Hall on behalf of sport and young people, pointing out the role that sport can play in...

• Community Sports Facilities — [Mr Peter Bone in the Chair] (1 Feb 2012)

  Clive Efford: I am grateful for that. I suspected that that was the answer. School sport partnerships are for school-age children, not for 14 to 24-year-olds, so the survey did not compare like with like. My concern is that the figure has been used as an example. I think someone said that “prizes for all” was the previous Government’s policy on encouraging people to participate in sport....

• Community Sports Facilities — [Mr Peter Bone in the Chair] (1 Feb 2012)

  Clive Efford: I shall give the Minister a chance to come back; I am a fair individual. After the 1998 Act-this is available through freedom of information and is on the Department’s website and the website of the Department for Education-was introduced, only 226 school playing fields were lost. A myth has built up that school playing fields have been disappearing at an alarming rate over...

• Community Sports Facilities — [Mr Peter Bone in the Chair] (1 Feb 2012)

  Clive Efford: I do not have much time left. The 226 figure is an answer to a question to one of the Minister’s colleagues. The 10,000 figure dates from an FOI request in 2009, so I do not know where the former Minister, Tom Pendry, comes into it. Needless to say, even if the figure is out-even, to be generous, by 50%-the difference is staggering. It is essential, therefore, that the...

• Community Sports Facilities — [Mr Peter Bone in the Chair] (1 Feb 2012)

  Clive Efford: It is a pleasure to join the debate under your chairmanship, Mr Bone, for the first time, I believe. I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Bristol North West (Charlotte Leslie). She has been a doughty fighter on behalf of sport in general. She has made many contributions both in the Chamber and Westminster Hall on behalf of sport and young people, pointing out the role that sport can play in...

• Community Sports Facilities — [Mr Peter Bone in the Chair] (1 Feb 2012)

  Clive Efford: I shall give the Minister a chance to come back; I am a fair individual. After the 1998 Act-this is available through freedom of information and is on the Department’s website and the website of the Department for Education-was introduced, only 226 school playing fields were lost. A myth has built up that school playing fields have been disappearing at an alarming rate over...

• Community Sports Facilities — [Mr Peter Bone in the Chair] (1 Feb 2012)

  Clive Efford: I shall give the Minister a chance to come back; I am a fair individual. After the 1998 Act-this is available through freedom of information and is on the Department’s website and the website of the Department for Education-was introduced, only 226 school playing fields were lost. A myth has built up that school playing fields have been disappearing at an alarming rate over...