§ Lord Moynihanasked Her Majesty's Government:
When the Playing Fields Monitoring Committee was set up; on what dates it has met; and on what dates it has published its findings. [HL1163]
§ Lord McIntosh of HaringeyThe Playing Fields Monitoring Group was set up by DCMS in April 2000, and has met on the following dates:
10 July 2000, 6 October 2000, 12 January 2001, 14 June 2001, 26 September 2001, 17 December 2001, 15 January 2002, 11 April 2002, 6 November 2002, 29 January 2003 and 21 May 2003.
The Playing Fields Monitoring Group published the document Playing Field Statistics and Protecting Playing Fields in July 2002, together with the accompanying leaflet Protecting Playing Fields.
In addition to this, the Government also published the document Planning for Play: Playing Fields, and Positive Gains for Sport 2001–02 in July 2003, which includes statistics for playing applications relating to playing fields made between April 2001 and March 2002.
The Government will be publishing planning application figures for the year 2002–03 shortly.