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    TV won England the Ashes

    By Will 2 years ago, at the start of July, 4 Comments »

    TV revenue allowed England to win the Ashes. Discuss.

    John Grogan (Selby, Labour)

    Does my right hon. Friend share my concern that the lack of cricket coverage on free-to-air TV might have an adverse effect on the number of children who regularly play the sport?

    Richard Caborn (Minister of State (Sport), Department for Culture, Media & Sport)

    I can partially agree with that, but may I put on record my great appreciation of a legend of Yorkshire cricket, Freddie Trueman? I saw him at Bramall Lane with my dad when I was about 10 years old, and he is truly a legend, as Dickie Bird said on Saturday night.

    On Sky television and terrestrial broadcasting of cricket, we must remember what was in the Select Committee report. Had it not been for all the investment of television money in cricket, I do not think that we would have won the Ashes, which was a great feat, or had the coaching programmes and central contracts that the England and Wales Cricket Board now has. One must pay credit to the ECB for the modernisation that it has gone through. It is can now choose a team that can take the Ashes—which that team did, and we wish it well over Christmas and the new year in Australia—and also get more young people under coaching in cricket than there have been for many years. Credit must go to the ECB for that, and the funding—whether we like it or not—has largely come through television revenues.

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    Lord’s Taverners net some dosh

    By Will 2 years ago, at the start of June, No Comments; be the first!

    This must have passed me by.

    I am very pleased that the National Sports Foundation has made its first award. This was to the Lords Taverners for £177,500, to support their excellent work to promote the growth of grass roots cricket through the provision of cricket equipment bags to junior cricketers. This funding, which will help ensure that we capitalise on the explosion of interest in cricket among our young people following last summer’s Ashes series, was matched by a donation from the England and Wales Cricket Trust.

    I understand that the Foundation is in continuing discussions with potential sponsors as well as sporting organisations and they are hopeful that further awards will be announced shortly.

    So said Richard Caborn in the commons.

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    Grass roots funding

    By Will 2 years ago, mid-February, No Comments; be the first!

    I confess to being mildly ignorant to the figures afforded (if that’s the appropriate word) to English cricket, and sport’s governing bodies worldwide, so these published from the government made interesting reading.

    Kate Hoey questioned Richard Caborn:

    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much each sports national governing body (NGB) has received from the community club development programme in each of the last three years; and how much NGBs have allocated to
    grass-roots sports development under the terms of the compact with her
    Department on income from broadcasting in each year.

    And he replied:

    There is a "community club development programme" which provides funding for sport in Britain, and here are the figures since 2003:

    £
    NGB Year 1 (2003–04) Year 2 (2004–05) Year 3
    (to date) (2005–06)
    All England Netball Association 436,500 222,665 781,547
    Amateur Rowing Association 1,657,056 199,445 436,510
    Amateur Swimming Association 0 6,720 763,502
    Badminton England 134,227 666,644 448,389
    British Canoe Union 519,500 635,431 645,985
    British Cycling 588,136 216,389 598,630
    British Gymnastics Association 60,076 690,000 645,110
    British Judo Association 45,625 329,694 1,236,712
    England Basketball 205,809 110,000 597,442
    English Cricket Board 2,996,330 1,592,513 2,233,388
    England Hockey 185,000 248,800 623,308
    English Table Tennis Association 14,777 31,485 1,446,738
    Football Association 6,706,197 2,236,017 678,816
    Lawn Tennis Association 4,413,234 2,394,918 1,610,800
    Rugby Football League 38,188 260,591 994,598
    Rugby Football Union 7,442,027 1,772,009 1,141,316

    I don’t quite understand why or how the figures plummet for some sports, notably the Football Association (FA). Over £6m in year one, down to £678,816 in the third year. If anyone can offer an explanation, please do…

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