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Sport England
15. Mr. Love: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will make a statement on the reorganisation of Sport England. [113840]
Mr. Caborn: As a result of the recommendations in the joint DCMS/Strategy Unit Report—Game Plan—and a Quinquennial Review, Sport England is undergoing a radical modernisation and restructuring programme which will turn it into a more strategic and customer focused body. Good progress is being made with the adoption of a new strategy for sport and new business plan by Sport England's Council with proposals for restructuring the organisation are well advanced.
Film Industry
17. Mr. Sheerman: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what new steps she is taking to encourage the development of the skills base for the film industry. [113842]
Dr. Howells: On 24 February 2003, the UK Film Council and Skillset launched "Developing UK Film Talent: A Comprehensive Skills Survey of the UK Film Industry", the most in-depth report ever on skills in the British film industry. Building on this work, a Film Skills Action Group has been convened, comprising representatives from across the industry, to deliver an industry training strategy by September 2003. I very much welcome this.
Access Radio
19. Ian Lucas: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how the Government will facilitate the funding of its proposals for access radio. [113844]
Dr. Howells: We have received the Radio Authority's independent evaluation report on access radio and will be consulting on it. No decisions have yet been taken on how access radio should be funded.
Youth Activities
20. Ms Munn : To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what plans she has to fund arts and sports activities for young people in the school summer holidays. [113845]
Tessa Jowell: My Department is working with other Government Departments and agencies to deliver a programme of positive activities for children and young people during the summer and other school holidays. The programme builds on the success of last year's Summer Splash and Summer Plus schemes, and aims to reduce youth offending, encourage children and young people to return to education or training and build community cohesions. The type of activities will vary according to local need, but will include arts and sports.
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Mr. Arbeits
Kate Hoey: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what World Class Performance money has been given to the coach Mr. Arbeits. [113457]
Mr. Caborn: No funds from the World Class Performance Programme have been given to coach Mr. Arbeits.
National Lottery
Nick Harvey: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much has been raised in funding for good causes from the National Lottery in each year since 1994. [113766]
Mr. Caborn: The information requested is shown, for each financial year, in the following table. This includes income from both the operator and from investments.
| Total (£000) | |
|---|---|
| 2002–03 | 1,590,472 |
| 2001–02 | 1,842,233 |
| 2000–01 | 1,772,839 |
| 1999–2000 | 1,766,394 |
| 1998–99 | 1,918,906 |
| 1997–98 | 1,952,219 |
| 1996–97 | 1,587,759 |
| 1995–96 | 1,535,966 |
| 1994–95 | 298,580 |
The figure shown for 2002–03 has not yet been subjected to final audit.
Kate Hoey: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what system there is to ensure that lottery funding is used only by athletes and coaches who support drug-free sport. [113456]
Mr. Caborn: This Government are firmly committed to combating doping in sport. The anti-doping programme in the UK is delivered through the national anti-doping organisation, UK Sport, in conjunction with sports governing bodies.
The existing national anti-doping policy includes conditions of funding on athletes and governing bodies. Athletes sign their commitment to drug-free sport in agreeing to accept funding. The Sports Councils have agreed a consistent approach to suspending funding to an athlete found to have committed a doping offence.
UK Sport strongly supports the promotion of ethically fair and drug-free sport through their education and drug-testing programmes and their leading role internationally which has seen UK Sport accept the World Anti-Doping Code.
Nick Harvey: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much has been given to good causes under the (a) New Opportunities Fund and (b) Community Fund in each year since its creation, broken down by type of organisation and activity. [113767]
Mr. Caborn: By working in partnership with other organisations, the New Opportunities Fund gives grants to health, education and environment projects across
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the UK. Many of its grant programmes focus particularly on those in society who are most disadvantaged. The amount of money committed each year since its creation is detailed in the following table:
| Programme | 1999–2000 | 2000–01 | 2001–02 | 2002–03 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 92,715,000 | 61,972,000 | 211,469,000 | 246,439,250 |
| Education | 276,536,000 | 196,185,000 | 381,151,000 | 115,279,576 |
| Environment | 0 | 102,440,000 | 5,653 | 185,779,638 |
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The Community Fund awards grants to groups which help those at greatest disadvantage and which improve the life in the Community. All of the Community Fund's grants go to charities and other eligible voluntary and community organisations and the large majority of grants will go to registered charities in England and Wales or those recognised as charitable for tax purposes by the Inland Revenue in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The amounts committed under the Community Funds six current corporate priority areas, worked back to 1995–96, are detailed in the following table:
| Year | Children and young people | Older people | Disabled people | Black and minority ethnic groups | Refugees and asylum seekers | Areas disadvantagedby social or economic change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002–03 | 56,353,316 | 33,015,302 | 64,379,926 | 30,246,272 | 13,273,151 | 65,441,662 |
| 2001–02 | 88,087,812 | 48,367,859 | 82,773,623 | 44,438,276 | 17,873,575 | 153,869,915 |
| 2000–01 | 86,961,556 | 39,095,128 | 123,693,027 | 38,105,864 | 15,043,737 | 191,543,092 |
| 1999–2000 | 62,539,828 | 18,350,532 | 141,044,269 | 19,364,872 | 10,348,477 | 182,534,569 |
| 1998–99 | 59,348,864 | 16,419,559 | 117,493,289 | 18,192,851 | 7,405,889 | 95,346,789 |
| 1997–98 | 118,221,242 | 50,203,023 | 75,782,565 | 24,645,380 | 10,238,443 | 82,182,434 |
| 1996–97 | 120,758,214 | 21,257,744 | 163,099,667 | 26,982,364 | 5,618,066 | 78,419,066 |
| 1995–96 | 51,386,677 | 11,108,981 | 27,431 ,964 | (3) | 2,046,808 | 76,533,597 |
| Total | 643,657,509 | 237,818,128 | 795,698,330 | 201,975,879 | 81,848,146 | 925,871,124 |
(3) Unknown
Youth Sports
Claire Ward: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what progress the Government have made in the promotion and funding of youth sports. [113835]
Mr. Caborn: We are making excellent progress. We are investing over £1 billion in physical education and school sport over the next three years. As a result of this investment, 75 per cent. of schoolchildren will be spending a minimum of two hours each week on high quality physical education and school sport within and beyond the curriculum by 2006.
World Class Performance Funds
Kate Hoey: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much financial support has gone to Frank Dick and Denise Lewis from the World Class Performance funds. [113455]
Mr. Caborn: Denise Lewis has received direct support of £8,500 from the World Class Performance programme. £4,500 of this is used to support her training costs and £4,000 is paid to her coach Frank Dick, for coaching support. In addition she is eligible for core programme support from the UK Athletics World Class Programme, giving her access to service provision in the areas of sports science and sports medicine.
CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
Bullying
Mr. Ben Chapman: To ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners (1) how many complaints were made by clergy of bullying by more senior clergy in the last reporting year for which figures are available; [114124]
- (2) what support the Church offers to clergy who find themselves to be victims of bullying; [114199]
(3) what recourse is available to victims of bullying in the church who (a) hold the freehold of benefice and (b) hold the bishop's licence. [114353]
Mr. Bell: No records are held centrally about complaints of bullying. The Clergy Discipline Measure, when it comes into effect, will provide a means of gathering some such information. In addition, a grievance procedure is being developed that will include provision for the grievance to be referred to an independent referee, and also an appeal procedure.
Support is offered in dioceses by advisers in pastoral care and counselling, who are appointed by the Bishops to offer professional help to clergy with particular needs. Clergy who have freehold of office and clergy who hold a bishop's licence will, without distinction, shortly be able to use the grievance procedure or the Clergy Discipline Measure to seek redress against bullying.
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