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In terms of restrictions on the use of funding, these have been consistently in line with lottery policy and each application for funding assessed on its individual merits. Further to this there will have been ad hoc support via the County Sports Partnerships, School Sport Partnerships and local authority sports development officers and while this support is hard to evidence and categorise there will have been benefits to amateur sports clubs from the professional work force.
I will place a summary of projects in Essex, London region and England that have benefited from funding in the Libraries of both Houses.
Sports
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate he has made of the number of people who engaged in at least 30 minutes of moderate intensity level sport at least three times a week in (a) 2005-06 and (b) 2006-07, broken down by region. [187242]
Mr. Sutcliffe: Data from the DCMS’ Taking Part survey show the number of people who participated in moderate intensity level sport at least three times a week. The table sets out the data by region.
The moderate intensity level sport indicator is defined as participation in moderate intensity level sport for at least 30 minutes on at least three separate days during the past week.
| Moderate intensity, 3 x 30 minutes per week | ||
| Percentage | ||
| Region | 2005-06 | 2006-07 |
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport pursuant to the answer of 18 February 2008, Official Report, columns 333-4W, on sports, (1) how many people each percentage figure in the tables represents; [189974]
(2) how many people each percentage figure in the tables represents. [189975]
Mr. Sutcliffe: Pursuant to the answer of 18 February 2008, Official Report, column 335W, the tables show how many people each percentage figure represents, rounded to the nearest 10,000. The data are taken from the DCMS Taking Part survey.
The moderate level intensity sport indicator is defined as participation in moderate intensity level sport for at least 30 minutes on three separate days during the past week.
| Moderate intensity, 3 x 30 | ||||
| 2005-06 | 2006-07 | |||
| Percentage | Number (Thousand ) | Percentage | Number (Thousand ) | |
The active sport indicator is defined as at least one occasion of participation in an active sport during the past four weeks.
| Active sport, 12 x a year | ||||
| 2005-06 | 2006-07 | |||
| Percentage | Number (Thousand ) | Percentage | Number (Thousand ) | |
Sports: Lancashire
Rosie Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will collect data on Community Club Development Programme funding allocated to sports clubs in West Lancashire constituency. [189734]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The Community Club Development Programme (CCDP) is administered on Government’s behalf by Sport England. Sport England does not collect data about CCDP in the format requested.
Sport England allocates funding to 19 National Governing Bodies for Sport (NGBs) to identify and deliver capital sports facilities projects. Data about CCDP are not collected from the NGBs below county level.
Swimming: Southend on Sea
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what plans he has to encourage participation in swimming in Southend; how much his Department spent to promote swimming in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. [189001]
Mr. Sutcliffe: Financial support for community sport from public sources is primarily channelled through Sport England which dispenses Exchequer and lottery funds for sport. Sport England advises that to date no funds have been allocated directly to swimming in Southend and that there has not been a Sport England funded promotional campaign for swimming in Southend. In addition Sport England does not collect data on how much it spends promoting participation in specific sports.
However over the period from 1997-98 to 2007-08, Sport England has invested significantly in swimming across England:
| Exchequer( 1) and lottery funding (£) | |
| (1) Exchequer funding figures are only available for the years 2002-03 to 2006-07 | |
Furthermore there is a requirement for swimming provision through the PE and Sports Strategy for Young People. As this is delivered in curriculum time, the source of funding is the Department for Children, Schools and Families and not the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
Home Department
Animal Experiments
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what Government funds and resources have been allocated to research and development in finding an alternative to animal testing since 2001. [177932]
Ian Pearson: I have been asked to reply.
Between 2001 and 2007-08 the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) provided £12,008,000 for research into the replacement, refinement and reduction of animals in research through response mode funding and strategic programmes. In addition, these Research Councils fund the National Centre for Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NCSRs), established in 2004. Between 2004-05 and 2007-08 the NCSRs has received £5,525,000 from the Research Councils as well as £660,000 from the Home Office. The two Research Councils will provide £12,804,000 to the NCSRs for the period 2008-09 to 2010-11.
Driving Offences: Mobile Phones
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many fixed notice fines were issued in each police force area for the illegal use of a mobile telephone whilst driving in each of the last four years. [189618]
Mr. Coaker: It became a specific offence to use a mobile phone while driving in December 2003. The following table gives the figures for 2003, 2004 and 2005, the latest available. The figures for 2006 will be available later in the year.
| Fixed penalty notices issued( 1) for the offence of use of hand held mobile phone while driving( 2) by police force area, England and Wales, 2003-05 | |||
| Number of offences | |||
| Fixed penalty notices issued | |||
| Police force area | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 |
| (1) Covers tickets paid where there is no further action. (2) Offences under the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986, Regulations 110 (1), 110 (2) and 110 (3). Introduced 1 December 2003. 3 Nil. Note: Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. | |||
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