Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure there are enough spaces for 16 to 19 year olds to play sport.
Answered by Helen Grant
Since 2010 Sport England has invested over £12 million in 125 sports facilities projects in schools and colleges that 16 to 19 year-olds will directly benefit from.
Sport England also invests in local community sports facilities outside schools and colleges, which many students and young people also use regularly.
Its Inspired Facilities funding programme has invested £100 million in over 1,800 local sports facilities.
Sport England’s Protecting Playing Fields funding programme has invested £22 million in 400 projects to protect and improve over 1,000 pitches
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to increase numbers of post-16 college students taking part in physical and sporting activity.
Answered by Helen Grant
Sport England is focused on getting more young people playing sport regularly, and is investing in a wide range of projects at further education and sixth form colleges to help achieve this.
Sport England’s £8 million Further Education Activation Fund has already invested £6 million in 100 colleges. The latest round of funding made awards to 63 projects which will reach 72 institutions across England, helping 59,000 more students start playing more sport.
It has also invested £17 million to recruit and support 153 College Sport Makers whose job is to get more students playing sport in colleges.
Sport England is investing £1.3 million over three years in the Association of Colleges Sport - a new organisation that is working with the national governing bodies of sport and appropriate national agencies to increase participation and competition in colleges.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department has taken to improve female participation in sport at (a) player and (b) manager level.
Answered by Helen Grant
This Government is taking a number of steps to improve female participation in sport at both player and manager level.
Sport England's This Girl Can campaign was launched as a response to women's low participation in sport. It is based on a wealth of insight which highlighted the fear of judgement as a unifying factor putting women off sport. The campaign aims to eliminate this fear and change perceptions of what sport is and who it's for.
We are also taking steps to ensure women are participating in sport in leadership positions. SportCoachUK is running Project 500 to increase the number of women coaches, and has supported over 400 women through scholarships to start coaching and progress in coaching. At the very top, there is an expectation that women will comprise at least 25% of the Boards of National Governing Bodies by 2017. We are hosting a Women on Sports' Boards event this week to help sports bodies reach this goal.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department spent on the purchase of televisions in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
Answered by Helen Grant
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has not purchased any televisions in the periods stated.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many officials in his Department, of each grade, have remained at that grade since 2010 but received a pay rise; and how much of a rise each such person at each such grade has received.
Answered by Helen Grant
The Department's database management system does not record this information in a way that can extract the information asked for. To identify this information for each employee would incur disproportionate cost. Pay awards for civil service departments are limited to an average of up to one percent of overall paybill costs.
Asked by: Ben Bradshaw (Labour - Exeter)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by his Department in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
Answered by Helen Grant
The following items were either lost or stolen in the years in question:
2013: four laptops and three BlackBerrys
2014: three laptops