Asked by: Alex Norris (Labour (Co-op) - Nottingham North)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how her Department is working with the Department for Education to increase organised sport in schools.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
We work closely with the Department for Education on a wide range of issues including children’s and young person’s sport. This includes the Ministerial School Sport Board, which I attend along with the Minister of State for Children and Families and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Primary Care. Through the primary PE and sport premium, the government has invested over £600m of ring-fenced funding to primary schools to improve PE and sport since 2013. By using revenue from the soft drinks industry levy, we have doubled the premium funding from £160m to £320m a year. This funding is providing directly to schools to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of PE and sport they offer.
Asked by: Alex Norris (Labour (Co-op) - Nottingham North)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the effect of City of Football status on Nottingham.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
Sport England devised and funded the City of Football pilot project. Over the two years of the project (2014-2016), Sport England reported the very positive effect it had on the city of Nottingham. The objective to encourage more people from all backgrounds to play football was achieved with 55% of participants coming from the target audience of 14-25 years, 38% from black and ethnic minorities and 22% from our disabled community. Overall there was greater parity between male and female participants.
Sport England also saw community based organisations get closer to the planning and decision making process of how football can be delivered, and highlighted the important contribution of new industries involvement in the delivery of sport and physical activity. This included organisations from the world of gaming and performing arts. Further information and a final report is available on the City of Football website at http://www.city-of-football.uk
Sport England have taken lessons learned from the pilot to help inform the selection of their new Local Delivery Pilots https://www.sportengland.org/our-work/local-delivery/investing-in-local-areas/ and to introduce certain conditions to the Football Association’s 2017-21 Award for grassroots football development.
Sport England has no plans to extend the project. It was part of a wider programme of investment into existing activity to develop the grassroots game, including funding new facilities, running community programmes and working with partners such as the Football Association, Premier League and the Football Foundation.
Asked by: Alex Norris (Labour (Co-op) - Nottingham North)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans she has to extend the City of Football scheme following the two-year pilot in Nottingham.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
Sport England devised and funded the City of Football pilot project. Over the two years of the project (2014-2016), Sport England reported the very positive effect it had on the city of Nottingham. The objective to encourage more people from all backgrounds to play football was achieved with 55% of participants coming from the target audience of 14-25 years, 38% from black and ethnic minorities and 22% from our disabled community. Overall there was greater parity between male and female participants.
Sport England also saw community based organisations get closer to the planning and decision making process of how football can be delivered, and highlighted the important contribution of new industries involvement in the delivery of sport and physical activity. This included organisations from the world of gaming and performing arts. Further information and a final report is available on the City of Football website at http://www.city-of-football.uk
Sport England have taken lessons learned from the pilot to help inform the selection of their new Local Delivery Pilots https://www.sportengland.org/our-work/local-delivery/investing-in-local-areas/ and to introduce certain conditions to the Football Association’s 2017-21 Award for grassroots football development.
Sport England has no plans to extend the project. It was part of a wider programme of investment into existing activity to develop the grassroots game, including funding new facilities, running community programmes and working with partners such as the Football Association, Premier League and the Football Foundation.
Asked by: Alex Norris (Labour (Co-op) - Nottingham North)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of people played football regularly in (a) the UK and (b) Nottinghamshire in each of the last three years; and what proportion of those people were (i) female and (ii) BAME.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
According to the most recent data from Sport England's Active Lives Survey which covers the period May 2016 to May 2017, 5.1% of adults in England aged 16+, or 2.3 million adults, played football at least twice in the last 28 days. Of these participants 9.2% (212,000) are women and 90.8% (2.1 million) are men. 12.8% (294,000) of participants are South Asian, 3.2% (74,000) of participants are Black, 0.7% (16,000) of participants are Chinese, 2.5% (58,000) of participants are mixed race, and 1.8% (41,000) of participants are defined as 'Other ethnic group'. Data from the Active Lives Survey covers England only.
In Nottinghamshire, 4.8% of adults aged 16+, or 45,000 adults, have played football at least twice in the last 28 days. Of these participants, 8.0% (3,600) are women and 92.0% (41,100) are men. Due to sample sizes it is not possible to provide a breakdown in terms of ethnicity.
Historical data on participation rates from the Active People Survey is available at the following links:
https://www.sportengland.org/research/about-our-research/active-people-survey/
http://activepeople.sportengland.org/
The Active People Survey covered the period from 2006 to 2016 and is no longer in use. The data is not comparable with data from the Active Lives Survey because the two surveys use different methodologies and questions.
Asked by: Alex Norris (Labour (Co-op) - Nottingham North)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans the Government has to commemorate the centenary of Armistice Day in November 2018.
Answered by John Glen - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
The Centenary of Armistice Day, which in 2018 falls on Remembrance Sunday, will be referenced within the traditional Cenotaph service. In addition there will also be an expanded march-past the Cenotaph after the service, followed by a national service of commemoration and thanksgiving in the evening in Westminster Abbey.
There will also be a national concert to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War in Birmingham, supported by the Department for Communities and Local Government.
Asked by: Alex Norris (Labour (Co-op) - Nottingham North)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to tackle discrimination in sport.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
I refer the Hon. member to my response to question from the member for Lewisham Deptford in the chamber this morning.