Sport and major events

Niamh SalkeldPlaid

28 September 2026, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee

Annual scrutiny session with Sport Wales

…know you've mentioned it already, but I've heard as well how impactful the energy saving grant was that Sport Wales provided to so many of these community groups. As we know, energy bills could potentially increase by 25 per cent come January again, so I was just wondering what your overview was of…

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Brian Davies

28 September 2026, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee

Annual scrutiny session with Sport Wales

Yes. Things like leisure centre stock renewal, regional centres that were built when the lottery was flush, and we built a lot of regional performance facilities. The national centre in Cardiff, a 1970s building, has fallen way behind now to be competitive with our opponents. The figure's likely to…

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Brian Davies

28 September 2026, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee

Annual scrutiny session with Sport Wales

It was a very back-of-the-envelope study, which at that point in time, back in 2020-21, was identifying a gap of £0.25 billion in terms of investment into local facilities.

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Brian Davies

28 September 2026, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee

Annual scrutiny session with Sport Wales

…the gap. I'll use the words 'fag packet', although it's probably not the most appropriate in a sport committee—

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Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson

28 September 2026, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee

Annual scrutiny session with Sport Wales

…at facilities, probably—. I was going to say it was more than 25 years ago, when you went to each sport and said, 'What do you want?', they all wanted too much, and you ended up crossing over and there'd be athletics tracks three miles from each other and all sorts of things. So, I think it gives us…

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Brian Davies

28 September 2026, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee

Annual scrutiny session with Sport Wales

I think you were right when you said that I don't know what I would be able to say to that question. I think it will be a useful tool for us though, because we will still, hopefully, should we get capital funding from Government, need to make decisions on applications that we've got or prioritise…

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Louise EmeryReform

28 September 2026, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee

Annual scrutiny session with Sport Wales

…you can't particularly answer that, but can I have your opinion about it—information to hand, some sports require a lot of investment to do the sport, for example, swimming. I know there's such a backlog with swimming pools, and we know what local authorities are struggling with: turning the…

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Brian Davies

28 September 2026, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee

Annual scrutiny session with Sport Wales

…on the information we already have available to us, either through governing bodies, local authorities, sport partnerships or anybody else in this field—maybe even commercial organisations. So, we've done that stage. We've done the desk-based stage. What we've now done is gone back out to our…

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Louise EmeryReform

28 September 2026, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee

Annual scrutiny session with Sport Wales

…do you want?' Is it a big ask? And are we talking down to every little club, or are you going through sports associations?

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Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson

28 September 2026, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee

Annual scrutiny session with Sport Wales

…something else we're doing is a diary study with 16 to 24-year-olds, to understand why they drop out of sport. Because we make big assumptions about why anybody drops out, but actually it could be quite different. So, I think that's quite interesting, again, asking people themselves, not just…

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Brian Davies

28 September 2026, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee

Annual scrutiny session with Sport Wales

Yes, it's worth noting that those sport partnerships, around the decision-making table for them—there are five of them—they will have health boards, housing associations, they'll have higher education or education, police and crime, as well as sport development and local authority representation.…

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Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson

28 September 2026, Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee

Annual scrutiny session with Sport Wales

I think that's where sport partnerships are really important, because Daily Active might end up being delivered in quite different ways depending where you are in Wales, and how far away you live from school and things like that. Although we talk so much about young people, it's our ability to…

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