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Sport and Physical Education

Mr. Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what representations she has received from parents in Bristol regarding the distribution of New Opportunities Fund grant to local schools for the purpose of improving facilities for sport and physical education. [48752]

Mr. Caborn: The Department has received no such correspondence.

Mr. Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport which (a) secondary schools in England and (b) local education authorities have received New Opportunities Fund payments to improve sport and physical education facilities; and what the total amount was in each case. [48751]

Mr. Caborn: Local education authorities (LEAs) have received notification of their allocation under the scheme and bids are being developed. The deadline for LEAs to submit their stage 1 applications is the 22 April. Funding allocations are made up of a baseline allocation (based on the size of the school population in the LEA) and levels of deprivation in the area.

The allocation figures for each LEA area are given in the following table.

£
Total England allocations495,163,000

Note:

Isles of Scilly have been allocated a de minimus allocation of £25,000; this is not based on the school population size.


LEA areaAllocation (£)
Eastern
Bedfordshire2,571,000
Cambridgeshire2,879,000
Essex9,068,000
Hertfordshire5,684,000
Luton2,008,000
Norfolk6,358,000
Peterborough1,855,000
Southend-on-Sea1,303,000
Suffolk4,701,000
Thurrock1,619,000
Eastern England total38,046,000
East Midlands
Derby2,712,000
Derbyshire6,097,000
Leicester4,996,000
Leicestershire3,355,000
Lincolnshire4,987,000
Northamptonshire5,034,000
Nottingham5,080,000
Nottinghamshire7,358,000
Rutland203,000
East Midlands totals39,822,000
Inner London
Camden2,460,000
City of London53,000
Hackney4,259,000
Hammersmith and Fulham1,560,000
Haringey3,775,000
Islington3,796,000
Kensington and Chelsea1,338,000
Lambeth4,362,000
Lewisham3,817,000
Newham5,425,000
Southwark4,286,000
Tower Hamlets4,204,000
Wandsworth1,448,000
Westminster1,758,000
Inner London totals42,541,000
Outer London
Barking and Dagenham3,082,000
Barnet1,776,000
Bexley1,874,000
Brent2,965,000
Bromley1,906,000
Croydon2,376,000
Ealing2,978,000
Enfield2,995,000
Greenwich3,886,000
Harrow1,029,000
Havering1,684,000
Hillingdon1,403,000
Hounslow1,573,000
Kingston upon Thames678,000
Merton903,000
Redbridge2,131,000
Richmond upon Thames849,000
Sutton1,176,000
Waltham Forest3,481,000
Outer London total38,745,000
London totals81,286,000
North East
Darlington1,075,000
Durham7,335,000
Gateshead3,057,000
Hartlepool1,510,000
Middlesbrough2,264,000
Newcastle upon Tyne4,338,000
North Tyneside2,364,000
Northumberland2,972,000
Redcar and Cleveland2,208,000
South Tyneside3,031,000
Stockton-on-Tees2,407,000
Sunderland5,377,000
North East total37,938,000
North West
Blackburn with Darwen2,562,000
Blackpool2,362,000
Bolton3,475,000
Bury1,704,000
Cheshire4,816,000
Cumbria4,607,000
Halton2,337,000
Knowsley3,194,000
Lancashire11,987,000
Liverpool9,217,000
Manchester8,823,000
Oldham3,362,000
Rochdale2,873,000
Salford3,922,000
Sefton3,331,000
St. Helens3,092,000
Stockport2,150,000
Tameside3,363,000
Trafford1,634,000
Warrington1,807,000
Wigan4,310,000
Wirral4,448,000
North West total89,376,000
South East
Bracknell Forest530,000
Brighton and Hove2,246,000
Buckinghamshire2,599,000
East Sussex3,589,000
Hampshire6,634,000
Isle of Wight1,371,000
Kent10,535,000
Medway2,165,000
Milton Keynes1,455,000
Oxfordshire3,329,000
Portsmouth1,450,000
Reading920,000
Slough1,057,000
Southampton2,310,000
Surrey5,297,000
West Berkshire811,000
West Sussex3,925,000
Windsor and Maidenhead721,000
Wokingham812,000
South East total51,756,000
South West
Bath and North East Somerset965,000
Bournemouth1,283,000
Bristol, City of4,458,000
Cornwall4,518,000
Devon3,953,000
Dorset2,082,000
Gloucestershire3,663,000
Isles of Scilly25,000
North Somerset1,170,000
Plymouth3,154,000
Poole630,000
Somerset3,062,000
South Gloucestershire1,261,000
Swindon1,363,000
Torbay1,832,000
Wiltshire2,163,000
South West total35,582,000
West Midlands
Birmingham16,919,000
Coventry4,529,000
Dudley3,244,000
Herefordshire1,084,000
Sandwell5,526,000
Shropshire1,514,000
Solihull1,945,000
Staffordshire5,839,000
Stoke-on-Trent4,547,000
Telford and Wrekin1,747,000
Walsall3,959,000
Warwickshire3,358,000
Wolverhampton3,963,000
Worcestershire3,100,000
West Midlands total61,274,000
Yorkshire and Humberside
Barnsley3,993,000
Bradford8,035,000
Calderdale2,003,000
Doncaster4,746,000
East Riding of Yorkshire2,196,000
Kingston Upon Hull, City of4,212,000
Kirklees4,821,000
Leeds7,712,000
North East Lincolnshire1,965,000
North Lincolnshire1,319,000
North Yorkshire3,421,000
Rotherham3,832,000
Sheffield6,010,000
Wakefield5,000,000
York818,000
Yorkshire and Humberside total60,083,000

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Digital Television

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what assistance will be provided to those who are unable to take up digital television in Suffolk on the grounds of (a) affordability, (b) access and (c) reception. [50584]

Dr. Howells: The Digital Television Action Plan, posted on www.digitaltelevision.gov.uk and agreed by stakeholders, sets out a framework of actions to be taken by Government and industry, in partnership, to enable the take-up of digital television and achieve the tests of accessibility, availability and affordability announced in September 1999. The Government are committed to ensuring that terrestrial analogue broadcasting signals are maintained until those tests are achieved.

Linda Gilroy: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what steps she is taking to maintain diversity in the ownership and provision of digital television services. [49794]

Dr. Howells [holding answer 15 April 2002]: The Independent Television Commission is responsible for licensing commercial digital television services in the UK. One specific criterion to which the commission must have regard when awarding the multiplex licence is the capacity of the digital programme services proposed to appeal to a variety of tastes and interests. The Government's consultation paper on media ownership proposed that specific limits should not be placed on the ownership of digital services. Competition law should ensure that there is effective competition between digital platforms and the Government will continue to act to ensure open access to gateways on these markets.

Television Licence Payments

Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what recent discussions she has had with the Director General of the BBC on the guidelines for enforcement by the Television Licensing Authority of television licence payments. [49083]

Dr. Howells: I have had no such discussions. The BBC has statutory responsibility for the administration and enforcement of the television licensing system. As Licensing Authority, it is for the Corporation to set enforcement guidelines for its agent TV Licensing.

National Lottery

Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what discussions she had with Camelot on the new National Lottery logo; and if she will make a statement. [49929]

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Mr. Caborn: The National Lottery logo is owned by the National Lottery Commission. There is no new logo, although Camelot have been discussing with the commission minor modifications to the current design. Camelot have recently introduced a new corporate logo; that is wholly a matter for them. The Department has not been involved in either matter.

Mr. Woodward: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to her answer of 28 February 2002, Official Report, column 1539W, on National Lottery funding for football and rugby stadiums, if she will break down the 2001 National Lottery expenditure on Rugby League stadiums by (a) type of work undertaken and (b) venue. [48647]

Mr. Caborn [holding answer 15 April 2002]: Since my answer of 28 February to my hon. Friend the Member for St. Helens South, Official Report, column 1539W, Sport England has informed me that the National Lottery funding for Rugby League in 2001 was £512,142. The breakdown requested is as follows:









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