House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 14 July 2009 (pt 0011)

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	APS 2
Sport	Male	Female	White	non-white
Athletics	999,100	612,500	1,441,200	144,300
Badminton	307,500	228,100	453,800	86,100
Basketball	143,300	42,700	119,100	57,200
Bowls	205,000	152,300	361,000	⁽¹⁾-
Boxing	87,700	19,100	85,000	19,900
Canoeing and Kayaking	36,100	7,400	40,800	⁽¹⁾-
Cricket	187,600	17,100	155,000	58,200
Cycling	1,260,300	506,200	1,653,400	112,100
Dance exercise	11,000	138,400	130,800	20,600
Fencing	10,200	⁽¹⁾-	13,900	⁽¹⁾-
Fishing	124,800	7,500	135,100	⁽¹⁾-
Football	1,996,400	146,600	1,880,700	295,400
Golf	805,300	142,400	935,100	23,300
Gymnastics and Trampolining	20,600	68,600	82,100	⁽¹⁾-
Hockey-field	43,900	55,900	96,000	⁽¹⁾-
Horse riding	43,300	298,600	344,800	⁽¹⁾-
Judo	13,100	⁽¹⁾-	17,100	⁽¹⁾-
Mountaineering	63,600	22,500	76,300	⁽¹⁾-
Netball	⁽¹⁾-	116,800	108,400	14,000
Rounders	⁽¹⁾-	23,000	22,700	⁽¹⁾-
Rowing	39,000	15,900	52,900	⁽¹⁾-
Rugby League	82,800	⁽¹⁾-	84,600	⁽¹⁾-
Rugby Union	212,900	17,200	217,800	13,000
Sailing	64,900	25,000	88,200	⁽¹⁾-
Shooting	62,000	⁽¹⁾-	64,400	⁽¹⁾-
Skiing and Snowboarding	70,800	49,700	109,900	⁽¹⁾-
Squash and Racquetball	243,400	50,300	270,600	23,300
Swimming	1,108,600	2,136,500	3,052,200	197,000
Table Tennis	53,500	22,100	65,300	9,800
Taekwondo	16,800	7,400	21,500	⁽¹⁾-
Tennis	259,900	227,500	438,100	47,400
Volleyball	31,100	17,300	33,900	11,300
Weightlifting	108,900	9,400	93,300	18,600
⁽¹⁾ Denotes insufficient sample size.

Active People has now been commissioned on a rolling basis and further data will be available in due course. Further analysis of ethnicity and other demographics can be found on Sport England's Active People Diagnostic website at:

http://www.sportengland.org/index/get_resources/research/active_people/active_people_diagnostic_intro.htm

Sport England has not provided data on each individual sport by each detailed ethnic group (below the 'white' and 'non-white' groups), as for some of the smaller participant sports, there is insufficient sample to analyse the individual sport on a detailed demographic sub-group basis.

Tourism

Lembit Öpik: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate his Department has made of the number of tourist information centres which have closed in the last two years; and what recent steps his Department has taken to support the tourism sector. [285916]

Barbara Follett: DCMS is aware of the following closures in 2008-09:

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Regions	2008	2009
East Midlands	-	Lincoln
London	Hounslow	Croydon
	Hillingdon	-
	Southwark	-
North East	Addiston	Newcastle Airport
North West	Saddleworth	-
South East	Havant	-
	Herne Bay	-
	Whitstable	-
South West	Wadebridge	Stow on the Wold

Responsibility for tourist information centres falls to local authorities, for whom tourism support is a discretionary activity.

VisitEngland has worked with national, regional and local level tourism stakeholders to develop a national partnership model to increase the promotion of tourist information centres, to ensure that these are quality assured, and to improve their customer focus. A national implementation group will oversee the introduction of this new partnership.

The Government remain committed to supporting the tourism industry. At the national tourism summit in January, the Prime Minister called for a strengthened partnership between industry and Government through the recession and toward recovery. A tourism advisory group, composed of key industry representatives, is providing intelligence and guidance in this regard and an inter-ministerial group has been established to address fiscal and regulatory concerns as well as incentives and opportunities. VisitBritain and VisitEngland are also running a major, £6.5 million overseas and domestic marketing campaign, themed around destinations as "Value for Money".

International Development

Departmental Internet

Mr. Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development when his Department plans to update its web browsers from Internet Explorer 6. [285012]

Mr. Michael Foster: The Department for International Development (DFID) currently runs Internet Explorer 7 as part of our standard PC build. We are evaluating Internet Explorer 8 for potential future release when we have assessed compatibility with existing applications.

Justice

Court Orders

Mrs. Laing: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many court production orders for data from communications service providers were (a) applied for and (b) obtained in each year since 2000; and how many such orders were (i) sought and (ii) obtained by Government departments and agencies in each such year. [285415]

Bridget Prentice: The information about court production orders which is being sought is not held centrally.

Courts

Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what guidance is issued to the courts on discretion to refer to presenting authorities for investigation instances of prima facie evidence of criminal activity contained in papers lodged with a court in the course of a civil action. [286721]

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Bridget Prentice: The Judicial Studies Board issue guidance to the judiciary in section 1.7 of the Civil Bench Book on what to do when criminal conduct is discovered in civil proceedings. This can be viewed at the Judicial Studies Board website at: