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Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what discussions she has had with the Department of Education and Skills regarding the quality of physical education teaching in schools. [214834]
Mr. Caborn: The Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Education and Skills share an ambitious PSA target connected to the national PE, School Sport and Club Links (PESSCL) strategy. The two Departments are working closely on this joint project, on an on-going basis.
As part of the project, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) has been working with schools to help improve the quality of PE and school sport. This includes taking into account of how young people learn best, and how to improve their progress and attainment. A guide entitled Do You Have High Quality PE and Sport in Your School?" has recently been produced by the QCA. This is designed to help schools to self-evaluate the quality of their PE and sport, and help them improve the quality of their provision and make it more effective.
Another strand of the PESSCL project covers professional development and £18 million has been committed over 200306 to deliver this programme. Schools can draw, free of charge, from a menu of resources to help teachers provide high quality PE and school sport. Schools in 116 LEAs are already accessing the programme.
Mr. George Osborne: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much has been spent on postage by the Department in each year since 1997. [215025]
Mr. Caborn: The annual cost of postage is as follows:
£ | |
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199798 | 69,527 |
199899 | 70,018 |
19992000 | 66,685 |
200001 | 67,898 |
200102 | 74,168 |
200203 | 42,637 |
200304 | 62,786 |
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the total expenditure by her Department on (a) advertising and (b) advertising and publicity was in (i) 199697, (ii) 199798 and (iii) 200304; and what the estimate of cost of each will be in (A) 200405, (B) 200506, (C) 200607 and (D) 200708. [211676]
Mr. Caborn: The information is as follows:
(a) The Department incurred zero expenditure on advertising in 199697, 199798 and 200304. No expenditure on advertising will be incurred in 200405 and no expenditure is expected to be incurred in 200506, 200607 or 200708.
(b) The Department incurred the following expenditure on publicity (including publications, marketing literature and events):
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£ | |
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199697 | 75,562 |
199798 | 252,766 |
200304 | 533,549 |
The estimated expenditure on publicity in this, and the next three, financial years is as follows:
£ | |
---|---|
200405 | 674,000 |
200506 | (18); |
200607 | (18); |
200708 | (18); |
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much money from the New Opportunities Fund has been spent on (a) school and (b) community sport since 2000. [214836]
Mr. Caborn: The New Opportunities Fund (now operating with the Community Fund as the Big Lottery Fund) has made available £738 million for school and community sport in England since 2000.
£581 million has been made available for New Opportunities for PE and Sport (NOPES) providing community facilities in schools. Of this, £25 million has been devolved to the Space for Sport and the Arts programme and £30 million set aside for football projects, distributed via the Football Foundation.
In 2002, £19.8 million was made available to the Out of School Hours School Sport Co-ordinators programme to resource activities that promote effective links between sport and learning. An additional £28.4 million was made available in 2004.
The Big Lottery Fund contributed £77.5 million to the Active England programme through which new and modernised sports facilities and physical activity interventions are being developed.
Playing Fields and Community Green Spaces, the largest of the Green Spaces and Sustainable Communities schemes, was granted £31.5 million of funding. The scheme has two main elements: playing fields and playing pitch strategies, which has been granted £22.3 million, and playgrounds and community play areas, which has been granted £9.2 million.
Mr. George Osborne: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the cost of producing a staff identity pass was in the Department on the latest date for which figures are available; and how many staff identity passes have been reported lost or stolen in each year since 1997. [215091]
Mr. Caborn:
The cost of producing a staff identity pass in the Department for Culture Media and Sport is £12 per person. In 2004, 50 passes were reported lost or stolen and they were deactivated immediately. Records of lost or stolen staff identity passes were not kept prior to 2004.
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Mr. George Osborne: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the costs of departmental (a) staff training days and (b) staff development days held away from the department were in each year since 1997. [213790]
Mr. Caborn: The Department offers a range of learning and development opportunities both internally within the Department and externally through other providers. All decisions about learning and development activities are focused on cost-efficiency, rather than location.
Since 1997 the total annual cost to the Department of all learning and development provision was as follows:
£ | |
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19971998 | 200,620 |
19981999 | 311,514 |
19992000 | 348,693 |
200001 | 309,833 |
200102 | 318,352 |
200203 | 482,573 |
200304 | 453,709 |
200405 | 305,180 |
Mr. George Osborne: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much the Department spent on (a) stationery and (b) office supplies in each year since 1997. [213848]
Mr. Caborn: Stationery and office equipment are accounted for jointly.
The costs in the relevant years were as follows:
£ | |
---|---|
19971998 | 155,743 |
19981999 | 109,798 |
19992000 | 170,640 |
20002001 | 103,413 |
20012002 | 110,404 |
20022003 | 132,339 |
20032004 | 172,795 |
Commencing April 2004 stationery budgets were delegated to individual units, rather than centrally funded, to increase awareness of costs.
Tom Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many people have been fined in each of the last three years for not possessing a television licence while using a television set. [213381]
Estelle Morris: The available information relates to all offences under the Wireless Telegraphy Acts, the great majority of which, however, relate to television licence fee evasion. The number of people in England, Scotland and Wales 1 fined for offences under the Wireless Telegraphy Acts 2 in each of the last three years for which information is available was:
Number | |
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2000 | 105,203 |
2001 | 83,200 |
2002 | 95,757 |
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