Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Wansbeck)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much was invested in each region or constituent part of the UK as a result of London hosting the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Answered by Helen Grant
Figures representing the net gross value added by London hosting the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, broken down by UK region, are available in the Post-Games Evaluation of the “Meta-Evaluation of the Impacts and Legacy of the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games”, commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and published in July 2013. Data disaggregating the impact by public sector spending, spending by the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), and other sources can be found in “Report 5: Post Games evaluation – economic evidence base”.
Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Wansbeck)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the sports participation figures in each sport in each region and constituent part of the UK were in the (a) two years before and (b) two years after the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Answered by Helen Grant
DCMS is not responsible for, and does not collect data on, sports participation in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The data in the table is from Sport England’s Active People Survey which measures the number of people regularly taking part in sport in England.
Further analysis of the data, including a breakdown by sport, can be found here: http://activepeople.sportengland.org/
England | East | East Midlands | London | North West | West Midlands | Yorkshire | South East | North East | South West | |
2010/11 (APS5) | 14,758,900 (34.8%) | 1,644,100 (34.7%) | 1,227,400 (33.5%) | 2,228,000 (35.4%) | 1,986,000 (35.2%) | 1,440,000 (32.7%) | 1,496,400 (34.6%) | 2,470,600 (35.7%) | 715,000 (33.3%) | 1,551,500 (35.7%) |
2011/12 (APS6) | 15,512,500 (36.0%) | 1,709,000 (36.0%) | 1,304,200 (35.3%) | 2,398,000 (36.5%) | 2,066,500 (36.1%) | 1,511,200 (33.5%) | 1,557,100 (36.3%) | 2,622,300 (37.4%) | 759,800 (35.6%) | 1,584,400 (36.2%) |
2012/13 (APS7) | 15,462,600 (35.7%) | 1,678,700 (35.1%) | 1,263,100 (33.9%) | 2,466,200 (37.2%) | 2,055,800 (35.8%) | 1,512,400 (33.3%) | 1,560,200 (36.2%) | 2,609,200 (37.0%) | 742,20 (34.7%) | 1,574,800 (35.8%) |
2013/14 (APS8 Q2) | 15,643,000 (35.5%) | 1,716,600 (35.3%) | 1,295,600 (34.2%) | 2,497,800 (36.7%) | 2,050,600 (35.3%) | 1,516,000 (33.0%) | 1,535,200 (35.1%) | 2,646,300 (36.9%) | 745,900 (34.4%) | 1,639,100 (36.7%) |