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UK Basketball

Proceeding contribution from Mike Penning (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 20 February 2018. It occurred during Debate on UK Basketball.

The Minister is passionate about sport and in particular about basketball, although I know she does not want to be drawn into her personal views and, as a former Minister, I fully understand that.

The difference between basketball and the other sports on the list she just referred to—I have looked at it—is that basketball touches areas of the community that are not touched by those other sports. We are reaching out beyond communities such as Tottenham, where I grew up, into areas such as my constituency, where we did not traditionally have that reach. The participation across communities is not touched by those other sports. Every sport says that it is different, but basketball is clearly different.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
636 c25WH 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
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