§ Mr. GardinerTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much her Department spent per capita in grant-in-aid for sport in England in each of the last five years. [162162]
§ Mr. CabornThe Department for Culture Media and Sport's grant-in-aid funding for Sport England in 1998–99 was £36.49 million, in 1999–2000 was £37.52 million, in 2000–01 was £38.32 million, in 2001–02 was £43.16 million and in 2002£03 was £80.32 million, as illustrated. These figures do not reflect the grant-in-aid funding which the Department provides to UK Sport.
Grant-in-aid funding (£ million) Population totals (million) Funding per capita (£) 1998–99 36.49 48.7 0.75 1999–2000 37.52 48.9 0.77 2000–01 38.32 49.1 0.78 2001–02 43.16 49.3 0.87 2002–03 80.32 49.5 1.62
§ Mr. GardinerTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will place in the Library the latest available research showing what each European Union member country spends in direct government expenditure per capita on sport. [162163]
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§ Mr. CabornNo direct comparison of government expenditure per capita on sport by European Union member states has been made by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport or the Sports Councils the Department funds. Meaningful comparisons are difficult because of the differences between the ways sport is structured and financed from country to country.
£ Hockey Rugby Union Football Cricket Other Sports 1999 Sum of Award 189,067 949,625 936,950 27,554 23,147,854 Count of Award 4 6 29 4 136 2000 Sum of Award 712,024 27,130 3,875,902 156,826 11,583,244 Count of Award 8 6 106 50 341 2001 Sum of Award 1,771,412 570,793 594,067 601,326 33,474,131 Count of Award 7 16 87 45 296 2002 Sum of Award 615,458 309,952 2,569,851 1,275,456 28,488,443 Count of Award 9 10 103 60 476 2003 Sum of Award 22,518 625,640 533,837 3,189,745 2,288,964 Count of Award 5 9 122 54 320 The table shows Sport England Lottery awards benefiting a number of schemes and programmes in London including the Safer Sports Grounds initiative, Active Sports, English Institute of Sport, Active Communities Development Fund, Sport Action Zones, Football Youth Development, Community Capital and Community Athletics Refurbishment Programme grants, as well as Awards for All grants.
§ Mr. GardinerTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much Lottery
£000 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 SE 256,787,756 281,896,436 322,534,774 200,525,814 49,348,483 SI 4,850,455 5,339,265 1,263,666 275,798 275,039 SS 16,814,905 23,316,761 26,155,900 22,321,475 13,840,748 SU 26,777,576 64,905,697 16,896,624 9,686,653 7,320,776 SW 4,060,990 13,171,753 7,367,111 26,937,069 7,324,815 Total 309,291,682 388,629,912 374,218,075 259,746,809 78,109,861 In addition to these totals, Lottery money is directed to sport projects through other channels. Awards for All is a scheme funded by all of the Lottery good causes, which makes small awards across the good cause sectors. In the financial year 2002/03, Sport England contributed 9.770m to this scheme and in the following year, £12.5m. Total Awards for All spend attributable sporting projects was £13.608m in 2002–03 and 15.581 in 2003–04.
Lottery money has also been spent on sporting projects by the New Opportunities Fund, which has a remit to award money in relation to health, education and the environment. The New Opportunities for PE and Sport programme has made awards of £32,343,179 in 2002–03 and £142,734,236 in 2003–04. The Active England programme has made £17,699,899 of awards in 2003–04.
Elements of other NOF programmes have also funded sport projects. The awards in the table have been made under the Playing Field and Community Green Spaces programme.
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§ Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what funding has been provided to promote(a) hockey, (b) rugby, (c)soccer, (d) cricket and (e) other sports in Greater London in each of the last five years. [162342]
§ Mr. CabornThe information requested is in the following table.
expenditure has bet n allocated to sporting projects in each of the past five years, broken down by Lottery distributor. [162166]
§ Estelle MorrisMoney raised by the National Lottery specifically for Sport is distributed by five organisations, the Sports Councils in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and by UK Sport. The figures in the table, provided by the distributors for the DCMS Lottery Awards database show the figures requested.
£000 2001 765,432 2002 11,810,847 2003 15,322,777 Sport related projects have also been awarded Lottery money by NOF under the Out of School Hours Learning Programme, as in the table below.
£000 1999 32,881,535 2000 56,987,670 2001 48,393,488 2002 13,815,153 2003 1,065,337