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Playful Ideas—Projects Awarded

RAF Ibsley

Mr. Swayne: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what progress has been made on the listing of RAF Ibsley control tower; and if he will make a statement. [150873]

Margaret Hodge [holding answer 19 July 2007]: We are seeking further advice on this case from English Heritage before a final decision can be made.

Recreation Spaces: Floods

Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what assessment he has made of the effect of the recent flooding on public and community sporting facilities; and if he will make a statement. [152879]


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Mr. Sutcliffe: Sport England is working closely with those areas badly affected and has made an initial assessment of the recent flooding affecting public and community sporting facilities in the regions of Yorkshire, East Midlands and West Midlands. Initial assessments show that there is not a wide-scale problem affecting sporting facilities in Yorkshire but that some individual facilities in the worst affected areas are badly damaged. It is still too early to assess the extent of damage from flooding in the Midlands but Sport England’s regional offices are monitoring the situation and will be able to make a fuller assessment when it becomes possible to do so.

Sport: Schools

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport on what date his Department agreed a new target of raising the time allocated to school sport from four hours per week to five hours. [153383]

James Purnell: The Prime Minister announced on 13 July £100 million of additional funding to support access to five hours of sport each week for all 5 to 16-year-olds in schools and three hours for all other young people aged 16 to19.

Sports: Yorkshire and Humberside

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what assistance the Government has given to (a) amateur sports clubs and (b) sport in schools in York since 1997. [152187]

Mr. Sutcliffe: The information is as follows.

Amateur sports clubs

Sport England advise that, since 1997, Government and the national lottery funding bodies have awarded £1,925,000 to amateur sports clubs.

In addition the following clubs in York have been registered as community amateur sports clubs to access the benefits of the scheme;


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School sport

As part of the National School Sport Strategy, all schools in York are part of a School Sport Partnership (a family of schools which work together to increase participation in PE and school sport). Some are part of the York High Partnership, which was established in 2003 and will have received funding of £927,488 in the five years to 2008. The other schools are in the Burnholme Partnership, which was established in 2005 and will have received £631,215 in the three years to 2008.

Lottery funding of £222,526 has been awarded for two Out of School Hours Learning/School Sports Coordinators in York at the York High School Sport Partnership and the Burnholme Community College School Sport Partnership.

Government and the national lottery funding bodies have awarded £1,461,065 for community sports facilities in schools through programmes such as Active England, New Opportunities for PE and Sport and the Community Projects Capital Fund.

Sportsgrounds: Greater London

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many new sporting facilities have been provided for children in each London borough in each of the last five years. [153566]

Mr. Sutcliffe: We do not hold information centrally about new sports facilities provided for use only by children. However, Sport England collects information through the Active Places database on new sports facilities that have community access, including the public and private sector. The following table provides data taken from database and shows the numbers of sports facilities known to have been built in each London borough since 2002.


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2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Total by borough

Barking and Dagenham

3

1

4

3

1

1

13

Barnet

7

7

9

8

3

0

34

Bexley

0

6

1

15

3

0

25

Brent

0

9

3

1

3

0

16

Bromley

3

3

0

0

2

0

8

Camden

8

4

2

2

4

1

21

City of London

6

3

0

2

2

0

13

Westminster

15

7

6

1

2

2

33

Croydon

7

2

9

8

6

0

32

Ealing

5

7

3

5

2

3

25

Enfield

5

2

7

0

5

1

20

Greenwich

4

2

1

2

2

0

11

Hackney

1

3

3

1

4

0

12

Hammersmith

9

5

2

2

3

0

21

Haringey

6

2

3

1

2

1

15

Harrow

2

1

0

0

1

0

4

Havering

0

1

12

6

0

0

19

Hillingdon

3

1

4

4

4

0

16

Hounslow

1

1

2

8

3

2

17

Islington

2

4

2

1

2

0

11

Kensington and Chelsea

5

2

2

0

1

0

10

Kingston

5

4

1

1

2

2

15

Lambeth

1

0

4

1

3

1

10

Lewisham

1

3

7

3

2

4

20

Merton

5

3

6

6

0

0

20

Newham

7

4

1

7

3

0

22

Redbridge

5

1

1

0

2

0

9

Richmond

2

1

5

2

1

0

11

Southwark

4

2

3

7

6

1

23

Sutton

3

5

7

5

3

0

23

Tower Hamlets

2

3

5

2

9

1

22

Waltham Forest

7

0

5

4

6

5

27

Wandsworth

4

2

7

1

0

0

14

Total by year

138

101

127

109

92

25

592

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