Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary school children are receiving more than two hours of physical education per week.

The government is providing primary schools with over £150 million per year of ring-fenced funding, paid directly to head teachers to improve PE and sport. The funding goes directly to primary schools to improve PE and sport. We published a research brief in September 2014 about how schools used the primary PE and sport premium and the impact of the fund on PE and sports provision. The findings from this independent research show that the mean amount of time spent on curricular PE in primary schools increased by 13 minutes from 109 to 122 minutes a week from 2012/13 to 2013/14. The full report will be published later in 2015.