HC Deb 11 February 1997 vol 290 cc107-9W
Mr. Pendry

To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage how many sports are currently eligible to assistance from the Sports Council lottery fund; and if she will list them. [13523]

Mr. Sproat

One hundred and eleven sports are currently eligible to assistance from the English Sports Council lottery sports fund. They are:

  • Aikido
  • American football
  • Angling
  • Archery
  • Arm wrestling
  • Association football
  • Athletics
    • 108
  • Australian rules football
  • Badminton
  • Ballooning
  • Baseball
  • Basketball
  • Baton twirling
  • Bicycle polo
  • Billiards and snooker
  • Bobsleigh
  • Boccia
  • Bowls
  • Boxing
  • Camogie
  • Canoeing
  • Caving
  • Chinese martial arts
  • Cricket
  • Croquet
  • Crossbow
  • Curling
  • Cycling
  • Disability sport
  • Dragon boat racing
  • Equestrian
  • Fencing
  • Fives
  • Hying
  • Gaelic football
  • Gliding
  • Golf
  • Gymnastics
  • Handball
  • Hang-gliding and paragliding
  • Highland games
  • Hockey
  • Horse racing
  • Hovering
  • Hurling
  • Ice hockey
  • Ice skating
  • Jet skiing
  • Ju jitsu
  • Judo
  • Kabaddi
  • Karate
  • Kendo
  • Korfball
  • Lacrosse
  • Lawn tennis
  • Life saving
  • Luge
  • Modern pentathlon
  • Motor cycling
  • Motor sports
  • Mountaineering
  • Movement, dance, exercise and fitness
  • Netball
  • Orienteering
  • Parachuting
  • Petanque
  • Polo
  • Pony trekking
  • Pool
  • Quoits
  • Racketball
  • Rackets
  • Raquetball
  • Rambling
  • Real tennis
  • Roller hockey
  • Roller skating
  • Rounders
  • Rowing
  • Rugby league
  • Rugby union
  • Sailing/yachting
    • 109
  • Sand/land yachting
  • Shinty
  • Shooting
  • Skateboarding
  • Skiing
  • Skipping
  • Snowboarding
  • Softball
  • Sombo wrestling
  • Squash
  • Street/skater hockey
  • Sub-aqua
  • Surf-life saving
  • Surfing
  • Swimming
  • Table tennis
  • Taekwondo
  • Tank soo do
  • Tenpin bowling
  • Trampolining
  • Triathlon
  • Tug of war
  • Unihoc
  • Volleyball
  • Water skiing
  • Weightlifting
  • Wrestling
  • Yoga

Mr. Pendry

To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage (1) if she will list(a) the bodies and (b) the individuals which the Sports Council lottery fund has consulted during the current review of which sports are eligible for lottery awards; [13521]

(2) when she expects the Sports Council lottery fund's review of what sports are eligible for lottery awards to be completed; and when she expects the revised guidelines to be published. [13520]

Mr. Sproat

The English Sports Council lottery unit is not currently conducting a review of those sports eligible for lottery funding.