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Licensing Fees (Amateur Sports Clubs)
Hugh Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) how many representations the Department has received on the proposed increase in licensing fees for amateur sports clubs; and what response the Department has made; [219521]
(2) what representations she has received from the Central Council for Physical Recreation on the proposed increases in licensing fees for amateur sports clubs. [219522]
Mr. Caborn [holding answer 3 March 2005]: There were 97 responses to the consultation on fee levels to be set by the Secretary of State under the Licensing Act 2003 from sports clubs and their representative bodies, including the Central Council for Physical Recreation. We considered the views expressed to us by all respondents including those of sports clubs. On balance we concluded from the evidence that we had underestimated costs of the new regime and that it would be necessary to increase the fee levels generally. We set out our reasons for increasing the fee levels in detail most recently during the debate in the Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation on 23 February 2005.
Regional Sports Boards
Hugh Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will list (a) the budgets and (b) the operating costs for each of the Regional Sports Boards in the last year for which figures are available. [219520]
Mr. Caborn [holding answer 3 March 2005]: Details of the 2004–05 budget for the public expenditure (Exchequer and lottery) of Sport England's regional offices are given in the table.
Sports' Reviews
Hugh Robertson:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will list reviews of sport which are in progress (a) which she has initiated and
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(b) to which the Department is contributing; and when she expects each to report. [219523]
Mr. Caborn [holding answer 3 March 2005]: In July 2004, my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State asked Lord Carter to undertake an independent review of funding for sport. The report is expected to be published shortly.
In 2004, the Football Association (FA) commissioned a structural review of the organisation. The Department expects to be consulted as part of the review. The review's Independent Chairman, Lord Burns, is expected to report to the FA in summer 2005.
The Cabinet Office's Regulatory Impact Unit is carrying out a review—of which the Department is co-sponsor—of funding of school and community sport. The report is expected to be published later this month.
TREASURY
Asset Transfers
Mr. Cousins: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the transfer of resources to Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise to reflect transfers of office assets from the Treasury in central London will require additional cost savings to be made by those Departments. [220379]
Dawn Primarolo: The annual efficiency savings target of £507 million, to be achieved by 2007–08, was set in the 2004 Spending Review and applies to the integrated Revenue and Customs department. The changes to bring the Eastern end of the Government Offices Great George Street onto the Revenue and Customs balance sheets, as set out in the 2004–05 Spring Supplementary Estimates, do not affect this target.
Child Trust Funds
Mr. George Osborne: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many separate items of literature have been sent to parents of children entitled to child trust funds; how many parents have received these to date; how many more are expected to receive them by 5 May; and what the planned cost is of the production and postage of all items of literature about child trust funds to 5 May. [219797]
Mr. Timms: Three items of literature have been issued to parents of children eligible for the Child Trust Fund. A letter was sent in November 2004 to let parents know they would be contacted shortly about the Child Trust Fund and that there would be no need to make a claim. Detailed information packs and vouchers to open a Child Trust Fund account started to be sent out in January 2005.
The Inland Revenue will have sent these items to around 1.6 million parents of eligible children by the beginning of May 2005.
The planned cost of production and postage of these items is approximately £2,200,000.
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Mr. George Osborne: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what (a) the cost to date and (b) the planned cost to May of the Government's advertising campaign for child trust funds is. [219868]
Mr. Timms: Total media spend on advertising the Child Trust Fund including any related media buying fees and VAT for the period January to March 2005 inclusive is approximately £3.75 million.
Plans for April are currently being worked on and have not yet been finalised.
Economic Growth
Chris Ruane: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the quarterly growth rates were for each of the last 17 years. [219895]
Dawn Primarolo: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. Ihave asked him to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Chris Ruane, dated 4 March 2005:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question requesting quarterly growth rates for each of the last 17 years. (219895)
The quarterly growth rates for the chained volume measure of GDP at market prices and GDP at current market prices for each of the last 17 years are shown in the attached table, which I am also placing in the House of Commons Library.
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