§ 25. Mr. BlizzardTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many Sports Colleges he expects will result from the next round of specialist school designations. [123359]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisAll of the applications received in the June 2000 Sports College competition will be considered in relation to the published criteria. It is not possible at this stage to estimate the number of designations we will make. We expect to be on schedule to reach the target of 110 Sports Colleges by 2003 as set out in the recent Sports Strategy "A Sporting Future for All".