HC Deb 02 February 2004 vol 417 c634W
10. Mr. Truswell

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will make a statement on specialist sports colleges in(a) England and (b) the Pudsey constituency. [151931]

Mr. Caborn

There are currently 228 specialist sports colleges in England, and a further 30 will join them from September 2004. The Government aims to establish 400 specialist sports colleges by September 2005, subject to sufficient high quality applications. Within Pudsey, Priesthorpe Secondary School became a specialist sports college in 2002.