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1007804

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date	15/11/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, 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 Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to encourage children under the age of 16 to participate in extracurricular sport.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	191989
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>Government’s Sporting Future strategy set out how important it is for all children to have a good experience of sport and physical activity while they are young.</p><p> </p><p>Sport England supports children and young people in England by ensuring there is a good sports and activity offer before and after the school day. Sport England has committed up to £194 million of investment into children and young people over the next four years, which includes the Families Fund: up to £40 million invested in projects that offer new opportunities for families with children to be active together. Sport England will also provide specialist training to at least two teachers in every secondary school in England by 2020, and will invest £28m into Satellite Clubs between 2017-2021.</p><p> </p><p>DCMS are working closely with the Department for Education and the Department of Health and Social Care on a new School Sport and Activity Action plan, which will be published in Spring 2019. The plan will consider ways to ensure that all children have access to quality, protected PE and sport sessions during the school week and opportunities to be physically active throughout the school day.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 22/11/2018 10:17:16 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1007805

registered interest
date	15/11/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Heritage Lottery Fund: East Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding the Heritage Lottery Fund has spent in the East Midlands in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	191990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p>The Heritage Lottery Fund has given a total of £88,381,100 to 342 projects in the East Midlands since 2015. This breaks down as per the following table:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Row Labels</p></td><td><p>Projects awarded</p></td><td><p>Grant awarded</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>115</p></td><td><p>£53,385,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>118</p></td><td><p>£20,078,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>109</p></td><td><p>£14,917,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>342</p></td><td><p>£88,381,100</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 22/11/2018 08:46:09 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1002122

registered interest
date	05/11/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Theatres: Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to support theatres and touring companies in the Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	188267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>Since April 2016, Arts Council England (ACE) has invested more than £85,470,000 in theatre in the Midlands, including regular funding to their National Portfolio Organisations, National Lottery Grants for the Arts and Project Grants and Strategic funding. From the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, to the National Student Drama Festival in Leicester, ACE support a diverse range of work which has international appeal, is accessible to audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and plays a key role as part of England’s vibrant arts and cultural ecology.</p><p> </p><p>Between June 2016 and March 2018, Arts Council invested £2,737,902 in Strategic Touring in the Midlands region. This programme funded touring work focusing specifically on areas of low engagement with the arts and those that rely on touring for much of their arts provision. It also extended the reach of high-quality work by broadening the range of venues presenting it, as well as forging stronger relationships between audiences, promoters, venues, artists and producers.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 14/11/2018 11:50:18 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

964136

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Tourism: Nottinghamshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent steps his Department has taken to promote Nottinghamshire as a tourist destination overseas.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	169836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>VisitBritain and VisitEngland are responsible for promoting the UK as a tourist destination, through a range of different initiatives and campaigns.</p><p> </p><p>VisitEngland are also in charge of the £40m Discover England Fund which creates innovative, bookable tourism products throughout England which are aimed at specific international markets. These include:<br></p><ul><li>Creating England’s Literary Legends which is being led by Visit Nottinghamshire to provide bookable, literary-themed itineraries for US travellers to explore the vast literary history of Nottinghamshire, Hampshire and Shakespeare’ England.</li><li>The East of England Touring Route seeks to create a 300 mile touring route from London to Northumberland.</li></ul><p> </p><p>VisitBritain has also used Nottinghamshire in articles in their Media Centre such as Britain: The Movie Star and Spotlight On: The Midlands and in 2018, one of their multi-national press trips focused on the Nottingham areas, promoting the region to over 8 million readers of the press publications.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 11/09/2018 14:24:21 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

964354

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Sportsgrounds: East Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many outdoor sports facilities in the East Midlands have been funded by his Department since January 2016.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	169842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The government's sport strategy, Sporting Future, makes clear the importance of providing and maintaining sports facilities for the whole community to use.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2016, the government -via Sport England- has invested £34.5 million in facilities and projects in the East Midlands. This includes over £1.1 million specifically into outdoor facilities including pitches, multi-use games areas (MUGAs) and skateparks.</p><p> </p><p>Since it launched its Community Asset Fund in 2017, Sport England has invested £950,190 in community sport facilities in the East Midlands</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 11/09/2018 14:16:47 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley