Sport and the 2012 Olympics Legacy

Part of Opposition Day – in the House of Commons at 4:43 pm on 24 June 2015.

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Photo of Karen Buck Karen Buck Labour, Westminster North 4:43, 24 June 2015

On the schools sport partnership, it is a fact that low sports participation is heavily correlated with depravation. One of the greatest problems in recent years is the decline in participation in areas of deprivation, which is exactly where the schools sport partnerships were doing such a superb job, including in my own constituency and in parts of London where space and external space are at a premium and where we have to work hard to overcome that.