Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to improve the quality of PE lessons in schools.

Through the primary PE and sport premium, the government has invested over £600 million of cross-government funding direct to primary schools to be spent on the improvement of PE and sport and to encourage the development of healthy, active lifestyles. The government has doubled the premium to £320 million a year from September 2017 using revenue from the Soft Drinks Industry Levy. Schools must use the funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of PE and sport that will benefit pupils joining the school in future years.

An independent evaluation report into the primary PE and sport premium policy was published in December 2015. The report provides findings from a two year research project into how schools used the premium and the impact of the funding. The report can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pe-and-sport-premium-an-investigation-in-primary-schools.