<p>Touch Rugby</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 2:03 pm on 2 November 2016.

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Photo of Kirsty Williams Kirsty Williams Liberal Democrat 2:03, 2 November 2016

Could I thank the leader of the Conservative Party for his question, although as for the image he paints, once again, about him having his shirt off, can I remind you that Halloween was on Monday, not today? [Laughter.] Over the last three years, the Welsh Government has invested, with Sport Wales, £3.7 million to deliver physical literacy programmes for Welsh schools, and the 2015 school sport survey demonstrated a significant increase in the number of pupils taking sport for the second successive survey, which I’m sure is to be welcomed. We have to recognise that, if we’re going to encourage people to participate in sport, we have to offer a whole range of sporting activities, not just team sports; some people would prefer different options. We know, for instance, that girls love to participate in street dance-based activities, perhaps, rather than a team sport. But, like you, I believe in the important life skills that young people can develop playing sport, and sport and physical education will continue to form a very important part of our new curriculum developments as we take the Donaldson review forward.