Extract from Estimates Day debate (Commons) on the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport - Mar 10
Thursday, 11 March 2021 07:56
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital, Culture,
Media and Sport (Nigel Huddleston):...Sport was mentioned by many
hon. Members, including, as always, my hon. Friends the Members for
Bury North (James Daly), for Eddisbury (Edward Timpson) and for
Folkestone and Hythe (Damian Collins). We know that sport and
physical activity are crucial to our mental and physical health.
That is why we have continued to make sure that people can exercise
throughout the national restrictions...Request free trial
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital,
Culture, Media and Sport ():...Sport was mentioned by many hon. Members,
including, as always, my hon. Friends the Members for Bury North
(), for Eddisbury () and for Folkestone and Hythe (). We know that sport and physical activity are crucial
to our mental and physical health. That is why we have continued to
make sure that people can exercise throughout the national
restrictions and that grassroots and children’s sport are
absolutely at the front of the queue when easing begins later this
month. As well as ensuring that restrictions allow for people to
take regular exercise, central to our efforts to help sport has
been the £300 million sports winter survival package, which was
extended in an additional announcement just last week. That is on
top of £220 million funding provided by Sport England which, again, has been
widely distributed...
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