HC Deb 19 September 2002 vol 390 cc111-2W
Mr. Greenway

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on the research used to provide the figures for the new joint Public Service Agreement with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and her Department to raise the percentage of schoolchildren who spent a minimum of two hours each week on high quality physical education and school sports to 75 per cent. [72465]

Stephen Twigg

[holding answer 23 July 2002]: Evidence from the Youth Sport Trust, Sport England and the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority suggests that most pupils in schools operating as part of a School Sport Co-ordinator Partnership enjoy two hours of high quality PE and school sport a week within and outside the curriculum.

St Helens Merseyside North West England
1999–2000 0.2 0.4 0.4 0.5
2000–01 0.3 0.5 0.4 0.5
(ii) Secondary schools
1995–96 0.5 1.3 1.2 1.0
1996–97 0.4 1.2 1.1 1.0
1997–98 0.5 1.4 1.2 1.1
1998–99 0.6 1.2 1.1 1.0
1999–2000 1.0 1.2 1.1 1.0
2000–01 0.9 1.3 1.1 1.1

Mr. Woodward

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the pupil/teacher ratio was in(a) nursery schools, (b) primary schools and (c) secondary schools in (i) St Helens, (ii) Merseyside, (iii) the North West and (iv) England in each year is since 1996. [71286]

Mr. Miliband

[holding answer 23 July 2002]: The information requested is shown in the following table.