Question follow-through · 8296
Cricket: Facilities
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what criteria were used to select Birmingham, Bolton, Derby, Newcastle and Nottingham as locations for the proposed cricket domes.
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 9 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 17 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what criteria were used to select Birmingham, Bolton, Derby, Newcastle and Nottingham as locations for the proposed cricket domes.
11 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jun 2026
Answer published
The five new, all-weather cricket domes’ locations were chosen based on a range of factors relating to indices of deprivation and local sporting infrastructure need. These areas have some of the highest levels of deprivation and inactivity, which have red...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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