Outdoor Sports

Part of 5. Questions to the Minister for International Relations and Welsh Language – in the Senedd at 2:50 pm on 1 July 2020.

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Photo of Angela Burns Angela Burns Conservative 2:50, 1 July 2020

Thank you for your answer to Hefin David, Minister. I particularly want to make a plea actually for young female sports. I fear that there are going to be greater challenges for women's sports and female sports to come back after COVID-19. The Health and Social Care Committee did a very good report on physical sport and they identified very clearly the challenges, but particularly for girls and young women. Many of the sports that you've just mentioned—great that they've come back, they're outside sports—many of them do not appeal to young women, and I wonder if you would be prepared to bend your civil servants' minds toward what we could do to make fun, outdoor activity available to particularly the young teenagers who need to go out, they need to get fit, they need to actually just have social contact and a bit of fun after three or four very, very tough months for young people. I do worry that they will be left out of the equation going forward.