Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:15 pm on 5 October 2021.
I certainly agree with what the Member said about the importance of sporting facilities, and the twenty-first century schools programme certainly does provide that, alongside the school buildings that it generates. In my own constituency, where Fitzalan High School is to be a beneficiary of the twenty-first century schools programme, it comes with a new swimming pool, it comes with 4G pitches, it comes with a new cricket academy, doing all the sorts of things that the Member describes. We have provided funding in this financial year for the sports council for Wales to be able to improve facilities for community use at schools that the twenty-first century schools programme hasn't yet reached. So, I agree with everything that the Member said, other than the pretty desperate way in which Members of the Conservative Party in Wales continually wish they were living in a different country.