§ Mr. FearnTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much was spent in the United Kingdom on sports provision per capita in 1999. [119724]
§ Kate HoeyIn the financial year 1999–2000, exchequer funding for sport in the United Kingdom, channelled through UK Sport and the four home country sports councils, totalled £69,779,000. In addition, Lottery sports funding drawn down by the five distributing bodies was £316,689,340 during this period. Using the 1998 population census, this amounts to per capita expenditure of £6.52 in 1999–2000.