§ Bob RussellTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many specialist sports schools there are in(a) England and (b) each local education authority. [62982]
§ Mr. Miliband[holding answer 17 June 2002]: The total number of schools designated as specialist sports colleges in England is 142. The table shows the number of specialist sports colleges in each local education authority.
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Number of schools designated as specialist sports colleges by LEA (as at 17 June 2001) Local education authorities Number of sports colleges
Barking and Dagenham, London Borough of 1 Barnet, London Borough of 1 Barnsley 1 Bath and North-East Somerset 1 Bedfordshire (from 2 October 1998) — Bexley, London Borough of — Birmingham 6 Blackburn with Darwen — Blackpool 1 367W
Number of schools designated as specialist sports colleges by LEA (as at 17 June 2001) Local education authorities Number of sports colleges
Bolton (from 1 September 1998) 1 Bournemouth — Bracknell Forest — Bradford 4 Brent, London Borough of — Brighton and Hove 1 Bristol, City of 2 Bromley, London Borough of — Buckinghamshire 2 Bury — Calderdale 1 Cambridgeshire 2 Camden, London Borough of — Cheshire 2 Corporation of London — Cornwall 3 Coventry — Croydon, London Borough of 1 Cumbria 1 Darlington — Derby, City of 1 Derbyshire 1 Devon 2 Doneaster 1 Dorset 1 Dudley 1 Durham 2 Ealing, London Borough of 2 East Riding of Yorkshire 1 East Sussex 3 Enfield, London Borough of (from 1 September 1998) — Essex 5 Gateshead 1 Gloucestershire 2 Greenwich, London Borough of 1 Hackney, London Borough of — Halton Hammersmith and Fulham, London Borough of — Hampshire 2 Haringey, London Borough of 1 Harrow, London Borough of 1 Hartlepool 1 Havering, London Borough of 1 Herefordshire — Hertfordshire 2 Hillingdon, London Borough of — Hounslow, London Borough of — Isle of Scilly — Isle of Wight 1 Islington, London Borough of — Kensington and Chelsea, Royal Borough of — Kent 4 Kingston upon Hull, City of 1 Kingston-upon-Thames, Royal Borough of — Kirklees 1 Knowsley 1 Lambeth, London Borough of — Lancashire — Leeds 2 Leicester City (from 2 October 1998) 1 Leicestershire 1 Lewisham, London Borough of — Lincolnshire 1 Liverpool 2 Luton — Manchester 2 Medway — Merton, London Borough of — Middlesborough 1 Milton Keynes 1 Newcastle upon Tyne 1 Newham, London Borough of 1 Norfolk 2 North East Lincolnshire — North Lincolnshire — North Somerset 1 North Tyneside 1 North Yorkshire — Northamptonshire 1
Number of schools designated as specialist sports colleges by LEA (as at 17 June 2001) Local education authorities Number of sports colleges Northumberland 2 Nottingham, City of 1 Nottinghamshire 2 Oldham 1 Oxfordshire 2 Peterborough, City of 1 Plymouth, City of 1 Poole 1 Portsmouth 1 Reading — Redbridge — Redcar and Cleveland 1 Richmond-upon-Thames, London Borough of 1 Rochdale 1 Rotherham 1 Rutland — Salford — Sandwell 1 Sefton 1 Sheffield 2 Shropshire 3 Slough 2 Solihull — Somerset 1 South Gloucestershire — South Tyneside — Southend-on-Sea — Southampton — Southwark, London Borough of — St. Helens — Staffordshire 1 Stockport — Stockton on Tees (from 2 October 1998) 1 Stoke on Trent (from 1 September 1998) 1 Suffolk 2 Sunderland 1 Surrey 1 Sutton, London Borough of — Swindon — Tameside — Telford and Wrekin — Thurrock — Torbay — Tower Hamlets, London Borough of — Trafford 1 Wakefield 1 Walsall 1 Waltham Forest, London Borough of — Wandsworth, London Borough of 2 Warrington 1 Warwickshire 2 West Berkshire (Newbury) 1 West Sussex 2 Westminster, London Borough — Wigan 1 Wiltshire 2 Windsor and Maidenhead, Royal Borough of 1 Wirral 2 Wokingham — Wolverhampton 1 Worcestershire 2 York, City of — England Total 142
§ Mr. HepburnTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how many schools hold annual sports days in the(a) Jarrow constituency, (b) North East and (c) UK; and how this figure has changed over the last 11 years; [61272]
(2) what the Department is doing to encourage schools to hold sports days; [61273]
368W(3) how many hours per week schools are (a) required and (b) encouraged to devote to physical education and sports for pupils. [61274]
§ Mr. MilibandThe Department for Education and Skills does not collect figures on the number of schools which hold sports days. School sports days have an important role to play as part of an overall package of PE and sport opportunities provided by schools for all children. Work being undertaken by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority suggests that the vast majority of schools do hold an annual sports day or a similar event.
Physical education is compulsory within the National Curriculum at all Key Stages for all pupils. Schools must provide PE in accordance with the subject's programme of study. Guidance on Key Stage 3, published by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority and the Department for Education and Skills, indicates that the programme of study could be delivered within 90 minutes. Our White Paper "Schools: achieving success" includes a commitment that all children will be entitled to two hours of high quality physical education and school sport a week, within and outside the curriculum.
The school sports co-ordinators programme brings together partnerships of schools. These are championing new PE and sport opportunities for young people. One of the key aims is to increase the amount of inter and intra-school sport which does, of course include schools sport days, both within school and with other partner schools.