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Amendment 37 is also confused, in that it has the potential to draw into a regime of sanctions that is proposed in amendment 38 people who do not follow the code fully in reporting a lack of compliance.
I know that they will take a keen interest in what we say now but also, more important, in what we do following the debate and how we will act in the future.
You highlighted the fact that last year was not a typical year because it followed major structural change in the service and contained year 2000 risks.
Once that is achieved, increased participation in sport will follow as night follows day. The ultimate aim is to develop good habits and practices in young people that will set lifelong patterns of physical activity and produce the world champions of tomorrow.
While there has been an increase in the overall level of expenditure that has been permitted to local government, it has not been followed in commensurate terms with an increase in the central Government grant in one form or another.
Is the minister able to give any comfort to voluntary services, particularly services such as playbuses, which at present stumble on from year to year on one-year funding followed by one-year funding followed by one-year funding?