May I thank everyone who has contributed to this debate and thank you for the opportunity to have such a debate on sport and the impact of this public health crisis on sport, which is similar to the debate that we had on the arts? I think it’s wonderful that the Assembly can contribute in this way in setting the agenda for Government as we respond to the crisis that we’re currently facing.

Helen Mary Jones, thank you for emphasising the contribution that we’ve made through Sport Wales. Sport Wales is the body that implements sports policy here in Wales and the £8.5 million will certainly ensure that there is greater participation in sport within the nation in general. We have been seeking, over the past three years, to develop a policy of using health funding in partnership with sport, and I can assure you that that will continue.

Thank you to Mick Antoniw for emphasising the importance of the less prominent sports, such as basketball, and the Dance Crazy company, who I saw perform in the Senedd, and for emphasising the need to avoid inequalities in the use of leisure centres. That is certainly an issue that I will want to discuss with local government and with those responsible within Sport Wales.

Thank you to David Melding for mentioning cricket and for emphasising the way in which sport maintains public morale, and the need to have appropriate provision on a regional level and across Wales. I’m pleased to say that we have been in discussions recently with the Welsh Rugby Union. We are aware of their current funding crisis and we are seeking ways of helping to resolve that.

I’d like to thank Jack Sargeant for emphasising football in north Wales. I have been watching Connah’s Quay Nomads and I think that they’ve done superbly. Bala, unfortunately, haven’t reached the same levels. But we’re very aware of the need to strengthen the role of community football and we will be doing that in collaboration with and through the funding that we provide to the FAW.

I’d like to thank John Griffiths for highlighting, once again, the huge diversity of sports available in Newport. We’ve had an opportunity over the past two and a half years to visit Newport on a number of occasions and to support the development of the velodrome, the swimming pool and other activities in that area. Therefore, the partnership and the inspiration provided to the city of Newport by Newport County as a football team is a model that we can hopefully adopt across Wales.

And then, Alun Davies, thank you for emphasising the connection, once again, between physical fitness and mental health. This is an important lesson for us during this crisis because as we start to understand the importance of sport, we can see how a whole community can emerge from a crisis. I do think that the inspiration that sport can provide in a situation such as this one is something that we can be particularly proud of.

May I also thank Laura Anne Jones? It’s wonderful to see her back, in very sad circumstances of course. But I thank her for her comments on the importance of ensuring that different sports, such as tennis, and 3G facilities, are available in rural areas, not just in urban areas, and perhaps we can have a particular conversation on that point in order to ensure that we can take this forward.

In conclusion, may I emphasise that I have responsibility not only for sports and the arts, as was discussed last week, but I also have a more general responsibility to take an overview of physical activity? And I think that the commitment I would like to give, for the rest of my term, as Minister for sport, is that I will give particular emphasis to that overview, so that we can celebrate physical activity more generally, as one of our national virtues. Thank you.