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Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 11:04 am on 11 January 2018.

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Photo of Gavin Newlands Gavin Newlands Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Sport) 11:04, 11 January 2018

The Scottish Government have now twice written to the outgoing Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, asking her to intervene in order to save jobs in the culture and sports sectors following the severe decline in lottery revenues seeing huge cuts to the money going to devolved sports and culture bodies. May we have a debate on the importance of sport and culture, and on how we plug the huge gap in resources causing these sectors to suffer?