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Performance Targets
Tony Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will list the performance targets that her Department, its agencies and non- departmental public bodies are required to meet, apart
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from those set out in the public service agreements for 1999 to 2002 and 2001 to 2004; and if she will specify for each target (a) who sets it and (b) who monitors achievement against it. [60466]
Dr. Howells: In addition to the targets set out in the public service agreements (PSA), a number of targets, set and monitored by the Department, are in the Service Delivery Agreement underpinning the PSA. The Service Delivery Agreement may be obtained from the Library of the House and is also available on the DCMS website.
Performance targets for the Royal Parks Agency and the Department's non-departmental public bodies are set out in three-year funding agreements. These targets are agreed between the Department and its sponsored bodies and jointly monitored. I am arranging to have the funding agreements placed in the Library of the House.
Key targets for Lottery distributors are also agreed with the Department and jointly monitored. The targets appear in the distributors' Annual Reports and Accounts, which are available from the Library of the House.
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) what has been the (a) cost and (b) saving from the pursuit of the Department's Public Service Agreement targets in each year since they were introduced; [60888]
- (2) what the (a) cost and (b) saving has been from the Department's pursuit of Service Delivery Agreement targets in each year since they were introduced. [61631]
Dr. Howells: The Department's Public Service Agreement sets out the key outcomes it is committed to deliver with the resources provided, and its Service Delivery Agreement sets out the key steps towards delivery of those targets. Every year the Department publishes information on performance against its targets, including on value for money and on the resources it has used in its departmental report.
Departmental Expenditure Limit
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much and what proportion of the departmental expenditure limit for 2002–03 will be accounted for by staff costs; what the figures were for 2001–02; and if she will make a statement. [61031]
Dr. Howells: Information for 2002–03 is not available as the total for staff costs is dependent upon the outcome of pay negotiations. The figures for 2001–02 are available in the Department's 2002 Annual Report, Cm 5423, copies of which are available in the House of Commons Library.
Staff Training
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much the Department has spent on staff training and development in each of the last five years. [61068]
Dr. Howells: The Department has spent the following on training and development.
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| Financial year | Sum (£) |
|---|---|
| 2001–02 | 388,397 |
| 2000–01 | 309,832 |
| 1999–00 | 348,692 |
| 1998–99 | 311,514 |
Figures are provided on an accruals basis.
Figures for the years before 1998 are not held centrally. Retrieving the information prior to that date would incur disproportionate cost.
School Sport
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much Sports Lottery funds has been allocated to capital sporting projects in state primary schools in each year; and if she will make a statement. [61373]
Dr. Howells: Sport England's data collection for lottery awards does not distinguish between primary and secondary schools. The total amounts awarded to state primary and secondary schools for capital projects are set out in the table.
| Financial year | Total |
|---|---|
| 1995–96 | 13,316,057 |
| 1996–97 | 12,117,208 |
| 1997–98 | 22,270,791 |
| 1998–99 | 24,197,506 |
| 1999–2000 | 27,983,606 |
| 2000–01 | 20,767,260 |
| 2001–02 | 25,460,744 |
| 2002–03 | 7,476,435 |
| Total | 153,589,607 |
In addition, Space for Sport and Arts is providing £130 million towards new or modernised sport and arts facilities in about 300 primary schools in deprived areas. Of this, £55 million is lottery money of which Sport England is contributing £25 million. The majority of building work will be under way during the financial year 2002–03.
Mr. Gardiner: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will list the funding streams from the Government and the National Lottery available to secondary schools who wish to improve their sports facilities. [61292]
Dr. Howells: The Government fund the provision of sports facilities in schools predominantly through Sport England and other non-departmental public bodies. The Community Capital Fund, one element of the Sport England lottery fund, has allocated £200 million to primary and secondary schools for over 350 schemes since 1995 to assist with projects such as facility development. In addition, the New Opportunities Fund (NOF) recently allocated £750 million (£581 million in England) to LEAs across the country. Authorities are working with NOF and local organisations on the distribution of those funds to projects in primary and secondary schools designed to bring about a step-change in the provision of sporting facilities for young people and for the community.
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Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many (a) school and (b) other playing fields have been sold since June 2001 (i) in England and (ii) broken down by constituency. [62983]
Mr. Caborn: Data on the number of playing fields sold are not collected. Sport England do, however, monitor the number of planning applications concerning playing fields in their role as statutory consultee. The Government will shortly be publishing combined figures for (a) applications from schools submitted to the Secretary of State for Education and Skills for the disposal or change of use of school playing fields (which are already published monthly), and (b) figures from Sport England giving details of planning applications affecting playing fields which have been referred to them as statutory consultee (which are already published quarterly), along with (c) relevant data from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many school sports co-ordinators are in place. [62985]
Mr. Caborn: The Government are well on their way to meeting their target of 1,000 school sport co-ordinators by 2004, with 577 currently in place, benefiting 1.26 million pupils. Another 165 co-ordinators have been designated, making a total of 742 in post by September, and increasing the total number of pupils benefiting to 1.8 million.
School Sports Co-ordinators Scheme
Mr. Gardiner: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will make a statement on the School Sports Co-ordinators Scheme. [61289]
Dr. Howells: The Government are well on their way to meeting their target of 1,000 School Sport Co-ordinators by 2004, with 577 currently in place, benefiting 1.26 million pupils. Another 165 Co-ordinators have been designated, making a total of 742 in post by September, and increasing the total number of pupils benefiting to 1.8 million.
Staff Numbers
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many staff were employed by her Department on (a) 2 May 1997 and (b) 31 May 2002. [60927]
Dr. Howells: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Minister of State, Cabinet Office on 13 June 2002, Official Report, column 1402.
Advertising Campaigns
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much was spent on press and advertising campaigns in 2001–02; and what the planned expenditure is for 2002–03. [60906]
Dr. Howells: No press and advertising campaigns were undertaken in 2001–02 and none are planned for 2002–03.
Religious Broadcasters
Mr. Swayne: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will make a statement regarding her policy with regard to allowing religious broadcasters to
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apply for (a) national analogue radio licences, (b) national digital sound programme licences, (c) analogue radio additional service licences, (d) local radio multiplex licences, (e) national radio multiplex licences, (f) all audiologue television licences, (g) national television multiplex licences and (h) local television multiplex licences. [61508]
Dr. Howells: The Government's aim is to ensure that the limited spectrum available is distributed so as to satisfy as many viewers/listeners as possible, and to avoid giving one religion an unfair advantage over another so that everyone's beliefs are equally respected. The Government's position is set out in the document "The draft Communications Bill—The Policy" which states that, where there is sufficient spectrum availability, restrictions on religious bodies holding licences will be removed (paragraph 9.3.3).
This means that religious bodies can hold none of the licences referred to in the question. However, the Radio Authority, which licences all independent radio services in the UK, is currently given discretion under the Broadcasting Act 1990 to award local analogue, satellite and cable licences to religious bodies, subject to compliance with the authority's codes on News, Current Affairs and Programming; Advertising and Sponsorship; and its Ownership Guidelines, and the ITC can also award cable and satellite TV licences to religious organisations. The draft Bill increases the number of types of licences which religious bodies can hold by giving Ofcom discretion to award a digital local sound programme service and a digital additional service licence to religious bodies. Further clauses are now being drafted which will give Ofcom discretion to award religious bodies digital additional service licences for TV and radio, TV licences for digital programme services and restricted service licences.
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