HC Deb 24 July 1996 vol 282 cc439-45W
Mr. Pendry

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what percentage of(a) primary and (b) secondary school staff receive an extra pay allowance for responsibility in physical education or sport using the data collated in her Department's survey into physical education in schools. [38506]

Mrs. Gillan

Results of the survey of PE and sport in schools 1996 show that 2.1 per cent. of school staff in maintained primary schools in England are receiving an extra pay allowance for responsibility in physical education and/or sport. The equivalent figure for maintained secondary schools is 3 per cent.

Mr. Pendry

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list by gender the average percentage of pupils participating in extra-curricular sport in each of the school years 1 to 12 using the data collated in her Department's survey into physical education in schools. [38502]

Mrs. Gillan

The information is shown in the following table:

Average percentage of pupils in maintained primary and secondary schools in England participating in extra-curricular sport by year group and gender
Year group Boys Girls
1 3.6 3.0
2 6.7 5.1
3 20.0 16.5
4 27.6 23.3

Table 1: Time spent per week by maintained primary and secondary schools in England on national curriculum PE by year group
Year group: Percentage of schools1
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Two hours or less 88.4 88.0 81.3 78.6 70.7 72.0 57.4 64.3 74.5 89.9 91.5 94.4
90 minutes or less 63.5 61.1 48.2 43.0 33.6 33.8 8.0 11.2 20.0 61.2 60.3 76.1
60 minutes or less 21.0 19.9 12.4 10.1 7.5 7.3 1.3 2.7 4.4 29.8 30.1 50.0
1 Total number of schools with the relevant year group doing 2 hours or less, 90 minutes or less and 60 minutes or less per week on national curriculum PE, expressed as a proportion of all schools with the relevant year group which responded to the question.

Table 2: Time spent per week by maintained primary and secondary schools in England on traditional sports by year group
Percentage of schools1
Year group: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Boys
2 hours or less 98.0 97.3 96.2 95.2 92.9 94.6 95.7 96.0 96.1 96.8 97.3 97.8
90 minutes or less 95.6 94.0 90.4 88.7 83.3 84.4 71.9 73.5 78.3 87.3 87.2 92.2
60 minutes or less 90.0 87.4 77.0 73.5 61.8 61.1 35.1 36.6 42.1 62.2 67.7 76.7
Girls
2 hours or less 98.2 97.5 96.2 95.2 92.9 94.6 95.5 96.1 96.5 97.1 97.7 98.9
90 minutes or less 95.7 94.2 90.3 88.4 83.3 84.4 74.5 77.9 82.4 90.5 91.0 95.5
60 minutes or less 90.2 87.5 76.9 73.3 61.8 61.1 38.3 41.6 48.0 68.3 72.8 79.9
1 Total number of schools with the relevant year group doing 2 hours or less, 90 minutes or less and 60 minutes or less per week on traditional sports, expressed as a proportion of all schools with the relevant year group which responded to the question.

Average percentage of pupils in maintained primary and secondary schools in England participating in extra-curricular sport by year group and gender
Year group Boys Girls
5 43.4 38.2
6 47.6 42.1
7 42.2 36.7
8 40.9 35.4
9 38.3 31.4
10 32.9 24.9
11 28.9 20.8
12 18.9 11.6

Mr. Pendry

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) if she will list for each of the school years 1 to 12 the percentage of schools(a) timetabling two hours or less physical education in the school week, (b) devoting two hours or less to national curriculum physical education and (c) timetabling two hours or less to traditional sports using the data collected in her Department's survey into physical education in schools; [38509]

(2) if she will list for each of the school years 1 to 12 the percentage of schools (a) timetabling one hour or less physical education in the school week, (b) devoting one hour or less to national curriculum physical education and (c) timetabling one hour or less to traditional sports using the data collected in her Department's survey into physical education in schools; [38512]

(3) if she will list for each of school years 1 to 12 the percentage of schools (a) timetabling 90 minutes or less physical education in the school week, (b) devoting 90 minutes or less to national curriculum physical education and (c) timetabling 90 minutes or less to traditional sports using the data collated in her Department's survey in physical education in schools. [38510]

Mrs. Gillan

The available information is shown in the following tables:

Mr. Pendry

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list the average amount of physical education to the nearest minute for each of school years 1 to 12(a) timetabled in the school week, (b) devoted to national curriculum physical education and (c) timetabled to traditional sports using the data collated in her Department's survey into physical education in schools. [38508]

Mrs. Gillan

The available information is shown in the following table:

Average time devoted to national curriculum physical education, and to traditional sports in maintained primary and secondary schools in England
Year group Average minutes per week devoted to: National curriculum PE Traditional sports
Boys Girls
1 96 36 36
2 97 40 40
3 104 58 58
4 108 63 63
5 115 73 72
6 113 72 72
7 134 98 97
8 127 95 93
9 122 91 89
10 97 74 70
11 95 65 61
12 69 39 34

Percentage of maintained primary and secondary schools in England offering extra-curricular sport by activity, gender and year group
Football
Percentage of schools
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7
Primary-Boys 9.0 13.5 45.8 64.0 87.5 89.5 100.0
Primary-Girls 8.3 11.6 38.9 52.0 69.9 71.0 60.0

Percentage of schools
Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12
Secondary—Boys 88.9 87.3 88.5 88.1 88.3 87.7 86.3 64.5
Secondary—Girls 50.0 49.1 43.0 44.7 39.9 34.7 29.9 14.8

Cricket
Percentage of schools
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7
Primary—Boys 3.1 3.5 16.4 24.3 45.5 48.3 80.0
Primary—Girls 2.8 3.3 14.9 20.5 36.1 39.3 46.7

Percentage of schools
Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12
Secondary—Boys 66.7 76.4 80.7 82.6 80.6 79.5 54.0 33.5
Secondary—Girls 27.8 34.5 18.0 16.4 12.6 10.4 8.5 3.0

Hockey
Percentage of schools
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7
Primary—Boys 1.7 2.0 9.8 11.9 17.1 19.0 40.0
Primary—Girls 1.5 2.0 9.8 11.9 17.3 19.8 33.3

Mr. Pendry

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what is the average amount of time to the nearest minute that(a) primary school staff, (b) physical education staff in secondary schools, (c) non-physical education staff in secondary schools, (d) volunteers devote to extra-curricular sport using the data collated in her Department's survey into physical education in schools. [38504]

Mrs. Gillan

The available information is shown in the following table:

Average time devoted to extra-curricular sport per week in maintained primary and secondary schools in England
Hours (to nearest half hour)
By all primary school staff 2.0
By secondary school PE teaching staff 18.5
By secondary school non-PE teaching staff 4.5
By volunteers 1.5

Mr. Pendry

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list by gender the percentage of schools offering extra-curricular(a) football, (b) cricket, (c) hockey, (d) netball, (e) rugby, (f) tennis, (g) athletics and (h) swimming in each of the school years 1 to 12 using the data collated in her Department's survey into physical education in schools. [38507]

Mrs. Gillan

The available information is shown in the following tables:

Percentage of schools
Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12
Secondary—Boys 22.2 27.3 37.5 40.7 42.6 42.3 37.5 28.1
Secondary—Girls 29.6 38.2 72.7 74.2 73.5 68.6 63.6 43.8

Netball
Percentage of schools
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7
Primary—Boys 2.6 3.9 21.6 32.9 50.8 52.9 46.7
Primary—Girls 2.8 4.4 28.6 42.6 69.7 70.7 2.8

Percentage of schools
Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12
Secondary—Boys 18.5 20.0 10.4 8.7 7.4 7.1 6.0 1.5
Secondary—Girls 66.7 76.4 92.2 91.3 89.3 87.4 80.5 46.8

Rugby
Percentage of schools
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7
Primary—Boys 0.9 1.1 8.0 9.7 17.6 20.5 33.3
Primary—Girls 0.9 0.9 6.9 8.6 15.7 18.0 26.7

Percentage of schools
Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12
Secondary—Boys 42.6 49.1 62.5 62.3 60.9 50.8 46.0 32.5
Secondary—Girls 16.7 21.8 7.3 8.2 7.7 7.4 6.6 3.0

Tennis
Percentage of schools
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7
Primary—Boys 2.8 4.4 10.9 11.9 15.9 16.6 26.7
Primary—Girls 2.8 4.4 10.4 11.5 15.7 16.6 26.7

Percentage of schools
Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12
Secondary—Boys 38.9 43.6 55.2 59.6 62.6 60.1 49.0 32.0
Secondary—Girls 40.7 47.3 65.4 67.2 69.7 67.5 55.3 36.0

Athletics
Percentage of schools
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7
Primary—Boys 7.2 8.5 30.2 38.1 49.4 50.2 60.0
Primary—Girls 6.8 8.1 30.4 38.1 49.9 50.5 60.0

Percentage of schools
Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12
Secondary—Boys 79.6 81.8 86.7 88.1 88.3 82.2 63.8 35.0
Secondary—Girls 74.1 78.2 90.1 90.8 90.4 83.9 66.8 32.5

Swimming
Percentage of schools
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7
Primary—Boys 4.8 5.5 14.0 18.2 23.4 22.2 33.3
Primary—Girls 4.8 5.7 14.2 18.0 22.9 21.5 20.0

Percentage of schools
Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12
Secondary—Boys 35.2 20.0 27.3 25.8 26.2 26.0 24.7 18.7
Secondary—Girls 37.0 23.6 29.9 28.3 27.9 27.0 24.9 20.2

Mr. Pendry

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what percentage of(a) secondary schools and (b) primary schools offer extra-curricular sport (i) every lunchtime and (ii) after school every day using the data collated in her Department's survey into physical education in schools. [38505]

Mrs. Gillan

The information is shown in the following table:

Percentage of maintained primary and secondary schools in England offering extra-curricular sport every lunch-time and everyday after school
Primary Secondary
Every lunch-time 6.2 67.0
Every day after school 2.4 39.2

Mr. Pendry

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what percentage of(a) primary' and (b) secondary schools give swimming tuition at (i) a local swimming pool, (ii) an on-site pool used only by that school, (iii) an on-site pool used also for community provision and (iv) an on-site pool of a neighbouring school using the data collated in her Department's survey into physical education in schools. [38513]

Mrs. Gillan

The available information is shown in the following table:

Percentage of maintained primary and secondary schools in England providing swimming tuition.
Primary Secondary
Percentage of schools providing swimming tuition 85.4 59.2
Of the schools providing swimming tuition the percentage giving tuition at1:
A local swimming pool 77.5 51.6
On-site pool used only by that school 10.7 13.2
On-site pool also used for the community 4.2 29.2
On-site pool of a neighbour primary school 5.9 2.0
On-site pool of a neighbour secondary school 9.8 5.6
Other site 2.6 2.4
1 Figures add up to more than 100 per cent. because some schools use more than one location.