Mentions:
1: Luke Evans (CON - Bosworth) In my head, I wanted to improve my rugby, get girls, fight off bullies and improve my body image. - Speech Link
2: Luke Evans (CON - Bosworth) The classic example is the young Welsh rugby player, who wants to look big on the streets when he is - Speech Link
3: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) A variety of sports have been implicated historically, including rugby union, rugby league, athletics - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Bethell (CON - Excepted Hereditary) That is a big failure.We need our sports clubs—we have fantastic football and rugby clubs—to do more - Speech Link
2: Lord Naseby (CON - Life peer) I played for the English schoolboys at rugby—I was at Twickenham last Saturday. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bassam of Brighton (LAB - Life peer) that sport part of the regular day-to-day activity of the school curriculum.Excellence at elite-level rugby - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Anna Firth (CON - Southend West) football clubs such as Southend United are the beating heart of their communities, but many local lower-league - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) congratulate Scotland on its Six Nations victory over England and thank both teams for a blistering game of rugby - Speech Link
3: Ian Mearns (LAB - Gateshead) Yet again this morning, we have seen reports of the European super league being talked about in vigorous - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Mark Pawsey (CON - Rugby) I am always mindful of that when Mr Speaker is in the Chair, because rugby league arose in the north - Speech Link
2: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) He played for Plymouth RUFC, which is now Plymouth Albion, before he went on to play rugby league in - Speech Link
3: Stuart Andrew (CON - Pudsey) Last year saw England successfully host the rugby league world cup. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Clive Efford (LAB - Eltham) There are negotiations going on at the moment between the English Football League and the Premier League - Speech Link
2: Tonia Antoniazzi (LAB - Gower) We all love the game of rugby football union. - Speech Link
3: Lindsay Hoyle (Speaker - Chorley) Do not forget that the Minister for Sport is a rugby league man. - Speech Link
4: Michelle Donelan (CON - Chippenham) We stepped in again to prevent the super league —a competition that no fans wanted. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lindsay Hoyle (Speaker - Chorley) I must agree on the cricket; I’m not sure about the football, but it also held the rugby league world - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Stuart Andrew (CON - Pudsey) We also hosted a fantastic rugby league world cup tournament here in the UK, with victory for our fantastic - Speech Link
2: Stuart Andrew (CON - Pudsey) league world cup social impact programme. - Speech Link
3: Jeff Smith (LAB - Manchester, Withington) As we have heard, whether it was Wimbledon, the Commonwealth games, the rugby league world cup or the - Speech Link
4: Jonathan Gullis (CON - Stoke-on-Trent North) If we moved to a model where 70% of the combined Premier League and English Football League TV rights - Speech Link
5: James Daly (CON - Bury North) The best team in that league, every year, was Brackenhall. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Karl Turner (LAB - Kingston upon Hull East) screaming to this point by the impressive dedication of MND campaigners—not least Rob Burrow, who is a rugby - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Addington (LDEM - Excepted Hereditary) Indeed, the national sports—football, rugby or cricket; you name it—provide quite a lot of the funding - Speech Link
2: Baroness Randerson (LDEM - Life peer) There is the Sport Wales National Centre, Glamorgan Cricket Club and rugby facilities in the centre of - Speech Link
3: Earl of Devon (CB - Excepted Hereditary) As the football Premier League has shown, the UK has achieved unparalleled success in the highly leveraged - Speech Link
4: Lord Markham (CON - Life peer) Like the noble Lord, Lord Addington, I would like to declare an interest in that I still play rugby. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Rishi Sunak (CON - Richmond (Yorks)) It is our reforms that are leading to our marching up the league tables of the programme for international - Speech Link
2: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) He was an absolute giant of a man, an inspirational figure in Scottish rugby and someone who raised £8 - Speech Link
3: Mark Pawsey (CON - Rugby) key part of the UK economy, and for the west midlands that means automotive, which is important to my Rugby - Speech Link