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Pupils: Hay Fever
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what research has been (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated by his Department on the number of pupils affected by hay fever at (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools; and if he will make a statement. [194201]
Kevin Brennan: The Department for Children, Schools and Families has not commissioned or evaluated any research on the number of pupils with hay fever at primary or secondary schools.
Schools: Sports
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) whether he has made an estimate of what proportion of the 14 per cent. of children who do not receive two hours PE and school sport are female; [194911]
(2) what percentage of (a) girls at girls-only schools, (b) boys at boys-only schools, (c) girls at mixed schools and (d) boys at mixed schools took part in two
hours or more of high quality PE and school sport each week; [194912]
(3) what estimate he has made of the proportion of the two hours school sport that 86 per cent. of children take part in took place (a) within curriculum time and (b) out of school hours; [194913]
(4) what percentage of pupils participated in at least two hours of PE and school sport in the (a) 2003-04, (b) 2005-06 and (c) 2006-07 school years. [194914]
Kevin Brennan: The annual PE and School Sport Survey was introduced in 2003/04 and collects data relating to participation in PE and school sport. Over the last four years the percentage of pupils who participated in at least two hours of high quality PE and school sport in a typical week is as follows:
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In 2006/07, 70 per cent. of the pupils received two hours of curriculum PE. The remaining 16 per cent. of pupils participated in a mixture of curriculum PE and additional out of hours school sport to meet the two hours.
The annual PE and School Sport Survey collects data relating to PE and School Sport at a school, rather than pupil level. The 2006/07 survey found that 86 per cent. of pupils at boys only schools were participating in at least two hours high quality PE and school sport a week. The figures for pupils at girls only schools was 65 per cent.
Schools: Transport
Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) how many school walking bus schemes there are in England; [191700]
(2) how many schools in England have received public funds to help develop or implement walking bus schemes, broken down by local authority area. [191701]
Ms Rosie Winterton: I have been asked to reply.
1,918 schools in England have received Department for Transport funding for 2007-08 and up to two subsequent years to enable them to set up and sustain, or extend, a walking bus scheme. Prior to that there were an estimated 700 walking buses in England. A further 1,335 schools received funding for other initiatives to increase walking to school. We are currently reviewing entitlement to second-year funding. A breakdown of the 1,918 schools by local authority is set out in the table.
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