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National Lottery: Tickets

Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many National Lottery tickets were sold in each month since November 2006. [203100]

Mr. Sutcliffe: Camelot does not report the number of National Lottery tickets sold. However, it does report total National Lottery sales on a monthly basis and these can be found in the following table.

Month Sales (£ million)

2006

November

450.7

December

459.5

2007

January

359.4

February

384.6

March

453.4

April

354.1

May

361.7

June

447.6

July

362.1

August

364.5

September

488.4

October

374.1

November

405.8

December

471.0

2008

January

419.4

February

435.8


Figures are based on weekly sales which do not necessarily coincide with the exact start and end days of the calendar month.

Additional comments: in line with lotteries around the world, monthly fluctuations in sales occur as a result of rollovers, jackpot sizes and seasonal variations.

Olympic Games 2012: Marketing

Mr. Ellwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much funding the Government are providing to promote Great Britain in the lead-up to the 2012 Olympics; and who is responsible for the strategy for promotional expenditure. [202523]

Margaret Hodge [holding answer 29 April 2008]: The promotion of Britain in the context of the 2012 Games involves a number of Government Departments and other organisations, working in partnership with the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. This includes DCMS, the FCO, DBERR, and the British Council. It includes a wide range of events such as the British presence at the Beijing Games, and other activities and programmes by UK organisations and networks at home and overseas.

Part of the grants available by DCMS to VisitBritain and the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) will support Games-related tourism marketing and promotion over the period 2008-12.


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VisitBritain will receive £133.3 million over the next three years for its work in international and domestic matters.

The RDAs outside London spent £29.8 million on tourism support in 2006-07, of which £3.6 million was from DCMS. They will receive £10.2 million from DCMS in the next three years. The London Development Agency spent £22 million on tourism support in 2006-07, of which £1.9 million was from DCMS, via the Greater London Authority.

The strategic context for tourism marketing and promotion was set out in the DCMS Tourism Strategy for the 2012 Games, which was published last September. VisitBritain is presently preparing the details of the operational tourism marketing plan for the Games, but other organisations will also play their part in ensuring a successful boost to tourism from hosting the Olympic Games.

S4C: Al-Jazeera Satellite Television

Mr. Spellar: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport whether he has had discussions with S4C on the effect of its joint production with Al-Jazeera on its public service broadcasting obligations. [206069]

Andy Burnham: I have had no discussions with S4C on the effect of its joint production with Al Jazeera on its public service broadcasting obligations.

Sports: Females

Mr. Andy Reed: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate he has made of the percentage of girls and women who regularly participate in sport and physical activity. [205887]

Mr. Sutcliffe: My Department commissions, in partnership with several of its NDPBs, the Taking Part survey which is a continuous household survey providing national data on participation in culture, leisure and sport by adults aged 16 and over. The latest available data are from July 2006 to July 2007.

Taking Part data show that 46 per cent. of women had participated in an active sport at least once during the previous four weeks prior to completing the survey. It also shows that 18 per cent. of women had participated in moderate intensity level sport for at least 30 minutes on at least three separate days during the week prior to completing the survey. Information about the definitions can be found in “Progress report on PSA3: Final estimates from year two” at:

A child survey was appended to the main survey from January 2006 and, in households containing at least one child aged 11 to 15, an interview was sought with a randomly selected child. Data from the first year of the child survey show that 92 per cent. of girls aged 11 to 15 had participated in an active sport during the previous four weeks prior to completing the survey, and 82 per cent. of girls had participated in this way outside school lessons.


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Almost two-thirds of girls had participated in an active sport outside school lessons in the week prior to completing the survey (63 per cent.).

Sports: Israel

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what steps he has (a) taken and (b) plans to take to improve sporting links between the United Kingdom and Israel; and if he will make a statement. [206135]

Mr. Sutcliffe: I have not taken, nor do I plan to take, any special steps to improve sporting links with Israel. There are no barriers to organisations in the UK and Israel forming sporting relations and I am aware that there have been and will be sporting relations between our two countries and I welcome this.

Sports: Schools

Mr. Andy Reed: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much funding from (a) the National Lottery and (b) his Department was spent on (i) school sport, (ii) the Physical Education, School Sport and Club Links (PESSCL) strategy and (iii) community sport excluding money allocated through PESSCL in each year since 1997. [205888]

Mr. Sutcliffe: I have been informed by Sport England that funding was as follows:

(i) School Sport
Exchequer Lottery Total

1997-98

0

27,561,428

27,561,428

1998-99

0

50,388,919

50,388,919

1099-2000

1,432,000

34,278,425

35,710,425

2000-01

1,522,000

53,524,035

55,046,035

2001-02

7,190000

162,134,939

169,324,939

2002-03

16,899,000

65,671,181

85,570,181

2003-04

2,241,663

21,121,254

23,362,917

2004-05

2,310,440

27,612,132

29,922,572

2005-06

327,500

10,394,542

10,722,042

2006-07

72,500

2,569,359

2,641,859

2007-08

227,125

1,430,332

1,657,457


(ii) PESSCL
Exchequer

1997-98

0

1998-99

0

1999-2000

0

2000-01

0

2001-02

0

2002-03

0

2003-04

415,331

2004-05

7,817,183

2005-06

9,478,075

2006-07

8,185,981

2007-08

8,834,367



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(iii) Community Sport
Exchequer Lottery Total

1997-98

19,085,000

189,225,255

208,310,255

1998-99

17,005,000

320,705,276

337,710,276

1999-2000

19,520,000

132,623,754

152,143,754

2000-01

22,668,000

205,921,568

228,589,568

2001-02

22,829,000

386,719,865

409,548,865

2002-03

45,493,991

167,712,399

213,206,390

2003-04

17,475,000

129,294,942

146,769,942

2004-05

38,996,010

166,974,902

205,970,912

2005-06

47,870,861

82,698,275

130,569,136

2006-07

82,451,233

33,402,957

115,854,190

2007-08

79,419,745

89,993,158

169,412,903


Mr. Andy Reed: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much funding from (a) the national lottery and (b) his Department has been allocated to (i) school sport, (ii) the Physical Education, School Sport and Club Links (PESSCL) strategy and (iii) community sport excluding money allocated through PESSCL for each year during the period 2008-09 to 2010-11. [205889]

Mr. Sutcliffe: I have been informed by Sport England that projected funding is as follows:

(i) School Sports and (iii) Community Sport

Sport England is currently in the process of developing and agreeing a new three-year strategy which will determine the budget for School Sports and Community Sport for the next three years. In 2008-09 Sport England expects to spend (please note the lottery figure is a projection):

Exchequer Lottery Total

2008-09

86,130,502

125,438,333

203,231,844


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