§ 14. Mr. RandallTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what plans the Government have to fund the creation of a major athletics facility in the UK. [144792]
§ Kate HoeyThe Government have been consistent in their desire for athletics to have a new national centre to enable it to build on its Olympic successes and to provide athletics with a long-term legacy for the 21st century. The new Lea Valley National Athletics centre is being developed in Edmonton to host the 2005 World Athletics Championships. Other athletics facilities are currently being developed, in Manchester, as part of the Sports City development for the Commonwealth Games, and to support the United Kingdom Sports Institute Centre on sites around the UK.