<p>Touch Rugby</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 2:02 pm on 2 November 2016.

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Photo of Andrew RT Davies Andrew RT Davies Conservative 2:02, 2 November 2016

If I could identify myself with the comments of the Cabinet Secretary at the close of that question, I’d like to do that. As someone who still plays rugby, albeit veterans’ rugby, and is still dealing with the many letters from the traumatised individuals who saw me with my shirt off at Cardiff Arms Park—that’s too much of a frightening prospect, that is—I do take the point that rugby in any shape or form is a great leveller and, ultimately, a great way of bringing people together in a team mentality. Sadly, team sports have suffered in the field of education in recent years—in recent decades, even—and I’d be interested to know what action the Cabinet Secretary will take, working with her Cabinet colleague, the Minister for health, who has responsibility for sport, to make sure that there are the coaching programmes and there is the time within the curriculum for teachers who do want to get their coaching certificates to enable greater team participation in sports within our school environment, whether that is in primary or secondary.