I’m also very grateful to Sam Rowlands for tabling this important motion today. I’m going to make four quick points that I’ll elaborate on in correspondence, Minister: first of all, that it’s essential that elite performance funding follows the athlete and doesn’t go straight to governing bodies or national centres. That’s because north Wales sportspeople must be able to access training in the north-west of England, and, indeed, competitions, given that so much training and so many competitions in Wales are concentrated too far away, south of the M4. Secondly, and related to this, as Sam Rowlands has identified, we need decentralisation of sports governing bodies and national training centres from greater Cardiff. Thirdly, elite GB climbers in Wales currently can’t get Sport Wales funding, I believe, because we don’t, at this moment in time, have a Welsh governing body for climbing. This is completely unfair, especially if we want to get some climbers from north Wales entering into the Olympics. So, I’d be very grateful if Sport Wales could engage with GB Climbing and the British Mountaineering Council to resolve this problem.

And then, finally, Welsh curling, which is one governing body, one sport, that is headquartered in north Wales, faces the biggest challenge to its survival ever over the soaring cost of energy. I'd be incredibly grateful if Welsh Government or Sport Wales could engage with Welsh curling over their future presence at Deeside ice rink.