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Welsh Affairs

The Secretary of State is being very generous. Does he accept that there is a link between sport in schools and those children developing into potential Olympic athletes, and does he share my concern that some schools in Wales have had to sell off the playing fields and the children cannot play the same sort of sports on concrete? Will he undertake to speak to the Minister for Education, Culture and Young People to try and stop the sell-off of school playing fields? As somebody who, growing up in Wales, played a poor scrum half for his school but grew up under perhaps the best rugby team ever in British history in the days of Gareth Edwards et al, may I say—