§ Mr. FearnTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much lottery funding has been used to support sports coaches and trainers in the last 12 months. [62177]
§ Mr. BanksLottery funding to support sports coaches and trainers is distributed through the Lottery Sports Fund's World Class Performance Programme. Since the Programme began on 1 January 1997, the Lottery Sports Fund has committed a total of £43,818,416 to 37 sports, including disability sports, and supported a total of 1,816 athletes representing England and Great Britain. The English Sports Council is unable to provide a figure for the funds spent specifically on the employment of coaches and trainers or a separate breakdown for the last twelve months.
Of the £43,818,416 committed, £27,434,930 has been allocated to governing bodies as performance awards to cover technical support costs; and £16,383,487 has been allocated direct to individual athletes for subsistence costs. £8,230,479–30 per cent.—of the performance awards has been spent by the governing bodies on staffing costs, primarily on the employment of world class coaches and trainers. The subsistence awards to individual athletes include personal training funding to cover the costs of membership to sports clubs that have sports coaches, and personal trainers, such as strength coaches.