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Opposition day on Wednesday, 29 October 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Jeremy Hunt. The answering member was Andy Burnham.

Olympic Legacy

The Olympic legacy. Eleventh opposition day debate (part 2). Motion regatived on division (283 to 236). [Relevant documents:Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee sixth report of session 2007-08, HC 104, London 2012 Games: the next lap, the Government response, Cm 7437, and the uncorrected transcript of evidence taken before the Committee on 7th October 2008, HC 1071-i, on London 2012 Games: Lessons from Beijing.]

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Parliamentary proceeding
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481 c900-58 
Session
2007-08
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Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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House of Commons chamber
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Baroness Brown of Silvertown | 481 c934-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that contribution, and I support that proposal. Being a local girl who gr...
John Whittingdale | 481 c935-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for West Ham (Lyn Brown)—not just because we learned of h...
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Richard Caborn | 481 c938 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that had it not been for the 2012 London Olympics, we would not have t...
Baroness Brown of Silvertown | 481 c931-3 (Link to this contribution) I am almost at a loss for words when I try to describe the pride and anticipation that I felt when L...
Diane Abbott | 481 c933-4 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that although the Government are to be congratulated on what they have don...
Baroness Brown of Silvertown | 481 c934 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. What concerns me about these figures is that we have no method o...
Harry Cohen | 481 c934 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a very good speech, raising many pertinent points. She started out by talki...
Lord Foster of Bath | 481 c930-1 (Link to this contribution) I am of course grateful to the Secretary of State, but I was hoping for a commitment to do what the ...
Speaker | 481 c931 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before I call the next speaker, may I point out that we have spent almost two hours of this t...
Nick Raynsford | 481 c941 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way? She raised a point affecting my constituency and refuses to give way.
Baroness Hoey | 481 c941 (Link to this contribution) I wish my right hon. Friend would grow up, but I shall give way.
Nick Raynsford | 481 c941 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way, as she raised an issue about my constituency?
Baroness Hoey | 481 c941 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way, as the issue has been raised already. Many Members have raised issues about...
Baroness Hoey | 481 c941 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not allow my right hon. Friend to intervene as I know what he will say, and we disagree o...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 481 c940 (Link to this contribution) I have recently corresponded on the issue of the Team GB name with the Minister for the Olympics. It...
Baroness Hoey | 481 c940-1 (Link to this contribution) I want my hon. Friend the Member for Loughborough (Mr. Reed) to have a chance to speak, but let me c...
John Whittingdale | 481 c938-9 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to agree with the right hon. Gentleman about that. I am delighted that the UK school game...
Baroness Hoey | 481 c939-40 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Maldon and East Chelmsford (Mr. Whittingdale). The fa...
Nick Raynsford | 481 c941 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend talked about the legacy for London and for Londoners. Will she tell the House how she...
Paul Truswell | 481 c923 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend was right to trumpet the success of specialist sports colleges, of which I have...
Andy Burnham | 481 c923 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary is having precisely those discussions with his colleagues in the ...
Andy Reed | 481 c923 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for intervening. I will go into detail about the £100 million a little later, but I just...
Andy Burnham | 481 c923-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right about the deadline. There is a need to make four-year allocations to sport b...
John Whittingdale | 481 c924 (Link to this contribution) May I just say to the Secretary of State—and I suspect that I speak on behalf of all members of the ...
Andy Burnham | 481 c920 (Link to this contribution) This must be the last intervention; then I want to make progress.
Paul Truswell | 481 c920 (Link to this contribution) In the past, my right hon. Friend has acknowledged that one of the most important ways of engaging y...
Andy Burnham | 481 c920-1 (Link to this contribution) I will now come to the detail of that crucial point; I shall explicitly respond to my hon. Friend's ...
Lindsay Hoyle | 481 c921-2 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the increase to five hours, but what goes with good coaching is good facilities. Will my r...
Andy Burnham | 481 c922-3 (Link to this contribution) We must carry on investing in the bread-and-butter facilities up and down the country. Councils prov...
Lord Foster of Bath | 481 c929-30 (Link to this contribution) I think not, but I shall try to make some progress and give him a few more suggestions. The introduc...
Diane Abbott | 481 c929 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that to talk about getting funding for ethnic minority groups, but not...
Andy Burnham | 481 c924-5 (Link to this contribution) That is an incredibly gracious remark. But this is not about point-scoring. We were all surprised an...
Lord Foster of Bath | 481 c925-6 (Link to this contribution) I begin where the Secretary of State ended, by placing on record our congratulations on the phenomen...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 481 c927 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has mentioned the legacy a lot. According to the House of Commons Library, fundin...
Lord Foster of Bath | 481 c927-9 (Link to this contribution) I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman is surprised that I mentioned the legacy a lot, given that th...
Tom Brake | 481 c926 (Link to this contribution) Before my hon. Friend moves from the subject of other legacies, does he agree that it would be regre...
Lord Foster of Bath | 481 c926-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. As a result of the Olympics coming to London, there will be significant, mu...
Andy Burnham | 481 c917 (Link to this contribution) I just do not accept that that is correct at all. If the hon. Gentleman looks back, he will see that...
Andy Burnham | 481 c917 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman wants to dispute that record of events, I will give way to him.
Andy Burnham | 481 c918 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to my hon. Friends in a moment. We are providing just such an introduction. The ste...
Andy Burnham | 481 c917 (Link to this contribution) On the point about playing fields, tests were put in place by the new Government in 1997 to ensure t...
Jeremy Hunt | 481 c917 (Link to this contribution) No record was taken of the number of playing fields sold before 2000, and since 2001, well over 50 p...
Andy Burnham | 481 c918 (Link to this contribution) I agree wholeheartedly. We need to encourage a sense of the simple joy of sport among young people. ...
Lord Cormack | 481 c917-8 (Link to this contribution) Mr. Deputy Speaker, it may introduce a note of harmony if I remind the Secretary of State and my hon...
Andy Burnham | 481 c919 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more with my right hon. Friend. I celebrate what has happened in his local authori...
Nick Raynsford | 481 c919 (Link to this contribution) I strongly endorse the approach that my right hon. Friend has taken in his speech, and the emphasis ...
Andy Burnham | 481 c918 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with that assessment. I should say in praise of John Major that he recognised the i...
Claire Curtis-Thomas | 481 c918 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that our paltry number of Olympic medals in the years that he has no...
Andy Burnham | 481 c920 (Link to this contribution) Taking the narrow view is not in the right spirit. We are talking about the country's, not just Lond...
Speaker | 481 c920 (Link to this contribution) Order. I say to the House again that the interventions have been very long. The clock is ticking, an...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 481 c919-20 (Link to this contribution) I preface my remarks by echoing the words of the Secretary of State and the hon. Member for Chorley ...
Andy Burnham | 481 c919 (Link to this contribution) The issue is close to my heart, although I am not sure whether I would go as far as my hon. Friend i...
Harry Cohen | 481 c919 (Link to this contribution) I want to raise the issue of football. There was disappointment that there was no Great Britain team...
Andy Burnham | 481 c916 (Link to this contribution) Of course, we have to ensure that the money that we need to raise privately to fund the Olympics and...
Tom Brake | 481 c915-6 (Link to this contribution) I want to draw the Secretary of State's attention to concerns that local authorities are expressing ...
Andy Burnham | 481 c916 (Link to this contribution) I must make progress, but I will give way later. Before we address the elements of the legacy, it is...
Hugh Robertson | 481 c917 (Link to this contribution) I will. First, the Secretary of State just criticised us for making so-called party political points...
Andy Burnham | 481 c916-7 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I saw it with my own eyes: after-school competitive sport was simply ...
Speaker | 481 c916 (Link to this contribution) Order. We must not have interventions from a sedentary position. Interventions must be made in the p...
Andy Burnham | 481 c916 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way just now, because I am making an important point. [Interruption.] The hon. Gentl...
Baroness Jowell | 481 c952-4 (Link to this contribution) I should like to join everybody else in paying tribute to the quality of the debate. I welcome the f...
Speaker | 481 c954 (Link to this contribution) Order. I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the No Lobby.
Hugh Robertson | 481 c949-51 (Link to this contribution) I have always thought that one of the most striking things about the Olympics is that the term ““Oly...
Tom Brake | 481 c948-9 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate Team UK on its fantastic performance at the Olympics. I also want to state how proud ...
David Amess | 481 c947-8 (Link to this contribution) I had the honour of chairing the Committee stage of the London Olympics Act 2006, when the right hon...
Andy Reed | 481 c945-6 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that you will appreciate, Madam Deputy Speaker, the frustration felt by hon. Members on bo...
Speaker | 481 c943 (Link to this contribution) Order. I inform Members that there are approximately 25 minutes left for Back-Bench contributions? I...
Baroness Hoey | 481 c941-3 (Link to this contribution) I am interested in the legacy benefits for the sport of shooting. The legacy benefits of having it a...
Hugh Robertson | 481 c951-2 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Member for Greenwich and Woolwich (Mr. Raynsford) jumps to his feet at that, but it i...
Speaker | 481 c900 (Link to this contribution) I inform the House that I have selected the amendment in the name of the Prime Minister.
Jeremy Hunt | 481 c900 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House congratulates the British team on its superb results in Beijing, whic...
Claire Curtis-Thomas | 481 c900 (Link to this contribution) May I bring to the hon. Gentleman's attention some of the points that we heard earlier in Prime Mini...
Jeremy Hunt | 481 c900-2 (Link to this contribution) I agree completely with the hon. Lady that those construction projects need to go ahead, and within ...
Nick Raynsford | 481 c902 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has referred to the site for the shooting in Woolwich, in my constituency. Will h...
Jeremy Hunt | 481 c902-3 (Link to this contribution) My party is in favour of exactly what the Select Committee says: that, wherever possible, we should ...
Baroness Brown of Silvertown | 481 c903 (Link to this contribution) I introduced free swimming to the London borough of Newham when I was head of its culture department...
Jeremy Hunt | 481 c903 (Link to this contribution) In that case, will the hon. Lady speak to the Labour leader of Stevenage council, who has a very dif...
Andy Burnham | 481 c903-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has again displayed a fundamental misunderstanding of what we seek to achieve thr...
Jeremy Hunt | 481 c904 (Link to this contribution) If it was a partnership with local councils, why was it spun to the media when the announcement was ...
Jeremy Hunt | 481 c903 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Gentleman's involvement in county sports partnerships, which are extremely positi...
Andrew Pelling | 481 c904 (Link to this contribution) Is not the fundamental point that this is a cobbling together of initiatives that would have existed...
Jeremy Hunt | 481 c904 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. One of the first things that the new Mayor of London did wa...
Lord Foster of Bath | 481 c904 (Link to this contribution) Before the hon. Gentleman leaves his point about swimming, does he agree that although we would all ...
Jeremy Hunt | 481 c904 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. I do not think that any of the schemes can work in isol...
Lee Scott | 481 c905 (Link to this contribution) Although encouraging people to swim is vital, a swimming pool in my neighbouring constituency of Ilf...
Jeremy Hunt | 481 c905 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for drawing the House's attention to an extremely important conseque...
Nicholas Winterton | 481 c905 (Link to this contribution) Can we concentrate on the positive? I had a lot to do with the 2002 Commonwealth games in Manchester...
Jeremy Hunt | 481 c905 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very important point. I entirely agree with him. The example set by people su...
Philip Davies | 481 c905-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has been very kind about the Select Committee, which, as I am sure that he will agree...
Lord Cormack | 481 c905 (Link to this contribution) I understand completely why my hon. Friend emphasises swimming and the sporting legacy, but he will ...
Jeremy Hunt | 481 c906 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Since the Government came into power, 80 per cent. of the fundin...
Jeremy Wright | 481 c906 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that it is even more important that we have a good legacy for tourism? Tho...
Jeremy Hunt | 481 c906 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Of course the challenge of the Olympics, as far as tourism is co...
Philip Dunne | 481 c907 (Link to this contribution) Since my hon. Friend mentions the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, I am sure that in his wide-ranging...
Pete Wishart | 481 c908 (Link to this contribution) In Scotland, we are set to lose up to £200 million of lottery spending, and that will have an impact...
Jeremy Hunt | 481 c908 (Link to this contribution) I think that creating support for a sporting legacy is as important for the Commonwealth Games as it...
Andy Burnham | 481 c908 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman began by saying that he would not break any cross-party consensus on the Olympics...
Jeremy Hunt | 481 c908 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I can. We would have returned the lottery to its original four pillars, which would have meant ...
Claire Curtis-Thomas | 481 c907-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is being extremely generous in giving way. I have listened patiently to him and I...
Jeremy Hunt | 481 c908 (Link to this contribution) I want the Olympics to inspire every schoolchild in every school in Crosby. That is a vital part of ...
Jeremy Hunt | 481 c907 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that important contribution, and agree entirely that we need to do more t...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 481 c909 (Link to this contribution) I am listening to the hon. Gentleman very carefully, and I paid special attention to his answer to m...
Lord Redwood | 481 c908-9 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that one problem with how the budget is being implemented is that the Gove...
Jeremy Hunt | 481 c909 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes a telling point, as I would expect. It is true that the amount of money s...
Pete Wishart | 481 c915 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way; he has been very generous with his time. He ...
Andy Burnham | 481 c915 (Link to this contribution) I assure the hon. Gentleman that I will continue to have incredibly close dialogue with my right hon...
Claire Curtis-Thomas | 481 c915 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way. He took an intervention from the right hon. Member for ...
Andy Burnham | 481 c915 (Link to this contribution) We should not be at all shy of saying that we will make use of the best expertise and professionals ...
Andy Burnham | 481 c915 (Link to this contribution) I will give way, but then I really must make progress.
Andy Burnham | 481 c912 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to my hon. Friend who makes the case for rugby league, which is a sport important to h...
Andy Burnham | 481 c912 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to the shadow Culture Secretary and to the hon. Member for Shipley (Philip Davies) ...
Lindsay Hoyle | 481 c912 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend and I have a keen interest in one of the best sports in the world—rugby league....
Speaker | 481 c911 (Link to this contribution) Order. We must not have continued interventions from the Back Bench—
Andy Burnham | 481 c911-2 (Link to this contribution) I fear I agree with the sedentary interventions, Mr. Deputy Speaker. We are funding an Olympic games...
Alistair Burt | 481 c911 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for South-West Surrey is absolutely right to point out that spending decli...
Bob Spink | 481 c911 (Link to this contribution) You can do better than that, Alistair!
Alistair Burt | 481 c911 (Link to this contribution) What will happen over the next few years—
Bob Spink | 481 c911 (Link to this contribution) Come on, Alistair, what about a bit of policy?
Alistair Burt | 481 c911 (Link to this contribution) Does the Culture Secretary accept that, because of the decline in spending on sport after the raids ...
Alistair Burt | 481 c911 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman and I have played football together a number of times in a very consensual ...
Andy Reed | 481 c911 (Link to this contribution) I agree that today should be an opportunity to try to rebuild a consensus about the Olympics. I shal...
Andy Burnham | 481 c910-1 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the full parliamentary strength of the UK Independence party is behind the Government...
Bob Spink | 481 c910 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State paid tribute to the hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt) for calling ...
Andy Burnham | 481 c910 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, To leave out from ““House”” to the end of the Question, and to add instead thereof :"...
Jeremy Hunt | 481 c909-10 (Link to this contribution) No, but the Culture Secretary may not have noticed that we are a long way past 2000 now. As a result...
Andy Burnham | 481 c909 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has just used a phrase that is incorrect. I heard him say that we should return t...
Jeremy Hunt | 481 c909 (Link to this contribution) The point about the national lottery is that it is played throughout the country, so its benefits ne...
Andy Burnham | 481 c914 (Link to this contribution) We can be assured that in the Olympic Delivery Authority we have a team of professionals who are man...
Andy Burnham | 481 c914-5 (Link to this contribution) In a moment. I want to make some progress and go through the four key elements in our Olympic sporti...
Nicholas Winterton | 481 c913 (Link to this contribution) I want to be positive because I view the 2012 games with huge optimism. We have referred to the Comm...
Andy Burnham | 481 c913 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Sir Nicholas Winterton) but then I shall have ...
Speaker | 481 c913 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman will have to content himself with one question. Interventions are getting ...
Andy Burnham | 481 c914 (Link to this contribution) I will take the question, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and then I will make progress. The hon. Member for Ma...
Lord Redwood | 481 c914 (Link to this contribution) Given that there is now a lot of unused capacity in building and construction, can we look forward t...
Andy Burnham | 481 c913 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an important point, which relates to a large part of the substance of what...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 481 c913 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Nick Hurd | 481 c913 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State talks rightly about increased investment in sport in schools, but the uncomfo...
Andy Burnham | 481 c912-3 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Gentleman is not fabled for his imagination, but he should try to think of the ...
Philip Davies | 481 c912 (Link to this contribution) We have heard how people were inspired by watching British Olympic success in Beijing. They watched ...
Andy Burnham | 481 c912 (Link to this contribution) I will supply the hon. Gentleman with the exact figures for the total spending over the three-year p...
Jeremy Hunt | 481 c912 (Link to this contribution) The Culture Secretary has just said that total funding for grass-roots sports has increased, so can ...
Andy Burnham | 481 c913 (Link to this contribution) And the hon. Gentleman, but then I must make progress.
Andy Burnham | 481 c913 (Link to this contribution) I will take one more intervention and then—
Andy Burnham | 481 c930 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a good, balanced speech and has made some fair points about playing fie...
Jeremy Hunt | 481 c905 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for making that point. People have also been concerned about the clo...
Angus Brendan MacNeil | 481 c929 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a speech decrying targets, but if it were not for targets he would have...
Andy Burnham | 481 c911 (Link to this contribution) That is a perfect summary. The hon. Gentleman's speech was a series of nitpicking points about the G...
Robert Neill | 481 c943-5 (Link to this contribution) I shall be as brief as I hope I naturally am. I have some brief points to make as a London Member. I...
Andy Reed | 481 c903 (Link to this contribution) I chaired the recent county sports partnership meeting in Leicestershire. We have asked all our loca...
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