§ Chris RuaneTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many publicly owned playing fields have been sold in each of the last 15 years. [58780]
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§ Mr. CabornData on the number of playing fields sold is not collected. Sport England do however, monitor the number of planning applications concerning playing fields in their role as statutory consultee. The Government will shortly be publishing combined figures for(a) applications from schools submitted to the Secretary of State for Education and Skills for the disposal or change of use of school playing fields (which are already published monthly), and (b) figures from Sport England giving details of planning applications affecting playing fields which have been referred to them as statutory consultee (which are already published quarterly), along with (c) relevant data from the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions.
§ Chris RuaneTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much was spent by local authorities on sport facilities in each of the last 15 years. [58667]
§ Mr. CabornDetails of the expenditure by local authorities on the construction, conversion and renovation of sports facilities are shown in the following table. Figures for 2000–01 and 2001–02 are not available. (For the purposes of this question the figures relate to built facilities and do not include running costs (eg staffing costs, other overheads)):
£ million Year Indoor sports and Leisure centres Swimming pools 1987–88 71.6 45.5 1988–89 88.6 49.6 1989–90 173.4 80.6 1990–91 145.3 69.0 1991–92 107.8 50.6 1992–93 52.7 35.1 1993–94 56.9 27.4 1994–95 73.4 30.3 1995–96 74.3 35.9 1996–97 78.9 35.8
£ million Year Sports facilities 1997–98 167.6 1998–99 191.0 1999–2000 190.7