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1695282

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Football: Governing Bodies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to introduce a Football Governance Bill.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	18206
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2024 answer text <p>The Football Governance Bill was introduced to Parliament on 19 March 2024.</p><p>This delivers on the Government's longstanding commitment to protect the national game. By establishing an Independent Football Regulator we are safeguarding the future of clubs for the benefit of communities and fans.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 20/03/2024 14:38:49 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1681607

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2024
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Youth Services: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will develop a skills and workforce plan for youth services.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	9241
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government recognises the vital role that youth services and activities play in improving the life chances and wellbeing of young people.</p><p>While local authorities are responsible for delivering youth provision, the Government has worked closely with local authorities to update statutory guidance to support this delivery. The Government additionally provides significant funding to support youth services, with over £1.1 billion provided to the youth sector from DCMS In England between 2015 and 2021.</p><p>Furthermore, over this Spending Review Period, DCMS is investing over £500 million in youth services to deliver the National Youth Guarantee, a government commitment that by 2025, every young person will have access to regular clubs and activities, adventures away from home and opportunities to volunteer. This includes a significant number of interventions. For example, the Youth Investment Fund is delivering grants to build, renovate and expand youth centres, and the Million Hours Fund has created more than a million hours of youth activities in antisocial behaviour hotspots.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 19/01/2024 09:27:01 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1681609

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2024
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Youth Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of (a) access to and (b) the location of youth services.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	9242
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government recognises the vital role that youth services and activities play in improving the life chances and wellbeing of young people.</p><p>While local authorities are responsible for ensuring young people can access youth services, the Government has worked closely with local authorities to update statutory guidance to support this delivery. The Government additionally provides significant funding to support youth services, with over £1.1 billion provided to the youth sector from DCMS In England between 2015 and 2021.</p><p>Furthermore, over this Spending Review Period, DCMS is investing over £500 million in youth services to deliver the National Youth Guarantee, a government commitment that by 2025, every young person will have access to regular clubs and activities, adventures away from home and opportunities to volunteer. This includes a significant number of interventions. For example, the Youth Investment Fund is delivering grants to build, renovate and expand youth centres, and the Million Hours Fund has created more than a million hours of youth activities in antisocial behaviour hotspots.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 19/01/2024 09:24:38 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1681610

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2024
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Youth Services: Buildings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will review the youth services estate; and if she will fund repairs for that estate.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	9243
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government recognises the vital role that youth services and activities play in improving the life chances and wellbeing of young people.</p><p>While local authorities are responsible for delivering youth provision, the Government has worked closely with local authorities to update statutory guidance to support this delivery. The Government additionally provides significant funding to support youth services, with over £1.1 billion provided to the youth sector from DCMS In England between 2015 and 2021.</p><p>Furthermore, over this Spending Review Period, DCMS is investing over £500 million in youth services to deliver the National Youth Guarantee, a government commitment that by 2025, every young person will have access to regular clubs and activities, adventures away from home and opportunities to volunteer. This includes a significant number of interventions. For example, the Youth Investment Fund is delivering grants to build, renovate and expand youth centres, and the Million Hours Fund has created more than a million hours of youth activities in antisocial behaviour hotspots.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 19/01/2024 09:18:18 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1681436

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2023
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Youth Services: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the impact of local authority spending on youth services.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	900904
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government recognises the importance of local youth services. That’s why in England, between 2015 - 2021, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport provided over £1.1 billion to the youth sector. Furthermore, over this Spending Review Period, DCMS is investing over £500 million in youth services to deliver the National Youth Guarantee, a government commitment that by 2025, every young person will have access to regular clubs and activities, adventures away from home and opportunities to volunteer.</p><p>Additionally, local authorities have a statutory duty to provide funding for youth services in line with local needs, and the Government worked closely with local authorities to set out updated statutory guidance to support these efforts.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 11/01/2024 13:52:11 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1671554

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2023
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Swimming: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the availability of swimming (a) pools and (b) lessons for children.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	2619
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p>Responsibility for public access to and maintenance of swimming pools lies at local authority level.</p><p>In recognition of the benefits of physical activity, including swimming, and the challenges facing the sector, we are providing over £60 million of support for swimming pools. This will help ease cost pressures facing public swimming pool providers and help make facilities sustainable in the long-term through investment in energy efficiency measures. The funding is being delivered in partnership with Sport England and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, following extensive consultation with local authorities and the sector.</p><p>Swimming and water safety is a vital life skill, which is why it is a mandatory part of the primary PE National Curriculum. The Department for Education also administers schemes to ensure the provision of lessons and sports facilities for children, such as through the PE and Sport Premium and the Opening School Facilities (OSF) programme.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 27/11/2023 15:31:44 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1671559

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2023
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Arts and Sports: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to increase pupil access to (a) sports and (b) arts opportunities out of school.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	2623
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2023 answer text <p>Sport and physical activity are incredibly important for our physical and mental health and this government is committed to ensuring every child, no matter their background or ability, should be able to play sport and be active.</p><p>That is why in ‘Get Active: A strategy for the future of sport and physical activity’ we introduce an ambition that all children should meet the Chief Medical Officers’ guidelines on physical activity, with a target of getting 1 million more active children by 2030.</p><p>Schools play a key role in allowing all children to have high quality opportunities to take part in PE and sport, setting them up for a lifetime of physical activity. In July we published an update to the School Sport and Activity Action Plan. This builds on the announcement we made in March that set out new ambitions for equal access to PE and sport, with guidance on how to deliver 2 hours of quality PE a week, alongside over £600 million funding for the Primary PE and Sport Premium and School Games Organiser network.</p><p>Outside of the school day, the £57 million Opening School Facilities programme will support the most inactive young people to access facilities that will enable them to play sport and take physical exercise. By opening school sport facilities, including swimming pools, disparities in access to opportunities seen between socio-economic groups will begin to be tackled through the programme.</p><p>Over the school holidays, the Government offers £200 million of support per year to the Holiday Activities and Food programme, which provides disadvantaged children in England with enriching activities (including physical and creative activities) and healthy meals. Last summer, the programme reached over 685,000 children and young people in England, including over 475,000 children in receipt of free school meals.</p><p>We are also investing over £300 million in grassroots football and multi-sport facilities across the UK by 2025 which will further support youth participation in sport.</p><p>The Government is additionally providing significant arts and cultural opportunities for young people both in and out of school.</p><p>This includes our creative careers promise, which is backed by £115m a year to increase young people’s access to cultural and music education. The upcoming Cultural Education Plan will support all children and young people to access a broad range of high-quality cultural and creative activities and experiences inside and outside of school. Our Enrichment Partnerships Pilot aims to improve the availability and quality of enrichment activities in up to 200 secondary schools within Education Investment Areas. In addition, 79% of the organisations in Arts Council England’s 2023-26 Investment Programme portfolio are delivering activity specifically for children and young people of all ages, wherever they live.</p><p>Separately, the Government funds a diverse portfolio of music and arts education programmes that are designed to improve participation in the arts for children. The National Saturday Club, for example, gives 13 to 16-year-olds across the country the opportunity to study the subjects they love for free, including arts and creative subjects, on a Saturday at their local university, college or cultural institution. Government and Arts Council England also co-fund 15 National Youth Music Organisations offering large-scale, inclusive performances, high-quality music programmes, residencies, summer schools and workshops, to help develop young people’s skills, experience, and knowledge of music, supporting them to excel as young creatives outside of school.</p><p>The National Plan for Music Education includes £25m funding for musical instruments and equipment for schools, and the Music Progression Fund supports disadvantaged pupils with music tuition. Furthermore, we have created four new Music Hub Centres of Excellence to improve inclusion and create pathways to industry for talented young people from all backgrounds.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 23/11/2023 11:04:30 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1660731

	registered interest
	date	14/09/2023
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Sports: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact on the health of people under the age of 18 of having access to free sports facilities for at least two hours a week.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	199597
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2023 answer text <p>We know that active people are fitter, happier and healthier - which is why in our new Sport Strategy - 'Get Active’ - we set out an ambitious strategy to boost our national health by getting 3.5 million extra active people by 2030. This includes bold targets to reach communities with the lowest levels of physical activity.</p><p>As part of this strategy, we have set up a new National Physical Activity Taskforce to ensure we meet these targets, and will work closely with Sport England to track and measure the impact of our interventions. This will include measuring the progress made in tackling inactivity annually through the Active Lives Children survey, and in real time by seeking new sources of data that allow us to monitor progress.</p><p>Schools play a key role in allowing all children to have high quality opportunities to take part in PE and sport. In July we published an update to the School Sport and Activity Action Plan. This builds on the announcement we made in March that set out new ambitions for equal access to PE and sport and guidance on how to deliver 2 hours of quality PE a week, alongside over £600 million funding for the Primary PE and Sport Premium and the School Games Organiser network.</p><p>The Department for Education will be introducing a new digital tool to support schools with their reporting requirements for their PE and sport premium spend. This will hold schools accountable for how they use their PE and sport premium funding allocation to measure and improve the quality of PE and sport they provide.</p><p>Alongside this, the government is also investing over £300 million in grassroots football, tennis, swimming pools and multi-sport facilities across the UK by 2025 to increase participation and ensure physical activity should be accessible to all, no matter a person’s background or location. The historic level of direct investment to build or upgrade thousands of grassroots facilities across the UK and support swimming pools in England, will also increase access for thousands more young people.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 19/09/2023 13:49:29 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1660465

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2023
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Sports: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a scheme to give all people under the age of 18 free access to a local sports club.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	199426
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>We know that active people are fitter, happier and healthier - which is why in our new Sport Strategy - 'Get Active’ - we set out an ambitious strategy to boost our national health by getting 3.5 million extra active people by 2030. This includes bold targets to reach communities with the lowest levels of physical activity.</p><p>As part of this strategy, we have set up a new National Physical Activity Taskforce to ensure we meet these targets, and will work closely with Sport England to track and measure the impact of our interventions. This will include measuring the progress made in tackling inactivity annually through the Active Lives Children survey, and in real time by seeking new sources of data that allow us to monitor progress.</p><p>Schools play a key role in allowing all children to have high quality opportunities to take part in PE and sport. In July we published an update to the School Sport and Activity Action Plan. This builds on the announcement we made in March that set out new ambitions for equal access to PE and sport and guidance on how to deliver 2 hours of quality PE a week, alongside over £600 million funding for the Primary PE and Sport Premium and the School Games Organiser network.</p><p>The Department for Education will be introducing a new digital tool to support schools with their reporting requirements for their PE and sport premium spend. This will hold schools accountable for how they use their PE and sport premium funding allocation to measure and improve the quality of PE and sport they provide.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 199427 question first answered 18/09/2023 16:39:13 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1660466

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2023
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Exercise and Sports: Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps is she taking to encourage young adults to participate in the recommended levels of sport and physical activity each week.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	199427
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>We know that active people are fitter, happier and healthier - which is why in our new Sport Strategy - 'Get Active’ - we set out an ambitious strategy to boost our national health by getting 3.5 million extra active people by 2030. This includes bold targets to reach communities with the lowest levels of physical activity.</p><p>As part of this strategy, we have set up a new National Physical Activity Taskforce to ensure we meet these targets, and will work closely with Sport England to track and measure the impact of our interventions. This will include measuring the progress made in tackling inactivity annually through the Active Lives Children survey, and in real time by seeking new sources of data that allow us to monitor progress.</p><p>Schools play a key role in allowing all children to have high quality opportunities to take part in PE and sport. In July we published an update to the School Sport and Activity Action Plan. This builds on the announcement we made in March that set out new ambitions for equal access to PE and sport and guidance on how to deliver 2 hours of quality PE a week, alongside over £600 million funding for the Primary PE and Sport Premium and the School Games Organiser network.</p><p>The Department for Education will be introducing a new digital tool to support schools with their reporting requirements for their PE and sport premium spend. This will hold schools accountable for how they use their PE and sport premium funding allocation to measure and improve the quality of PE and sport they provide.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 199426 question first answered 18/09/2023 16:39:13 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell