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1456505

registered interest
date	31/03/2022
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 she is taking to help ensure that every child can engage in community sports.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	151201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that all children and young people have the best opportunities to engage in sport and physical activity.</p><p>Throughout the pandemic we provided an unprecedented £1 billion of financial support to ensure the survival of the sport and leisure sector. To tackle inequalities and support those most impacted by the restrictions, Sport England have launched a new £20 million Together Fund that builds on the work of their £20 million Tackling Inequalities Fund to help people stay active and provide guidance on how to find accessible activities. Initiatives such as the Studio You video platform, funded by Sport England and powered by This Girl Can, are also encouraging more teenage girls to be active. Sport England’s recently launched Uniting the Movement strategy reinforces their commitment to tackling inequalities faced in sport by underrepresented groups.</p><p>A key driver of the government’s School Sport and Activity Action Plan is to ensure that all children and young people have access to at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day. This is supported by £320 million per year through the PE and sport premium.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 19/04/2022 11:33:35 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1282052

registered interest
date	29/01/2021
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 his Department is taking to ensure that organised sports are accessible to all children regardless of socioeconomic status.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	145746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2021 answer text <p>Government is committed to ensuring that all children and young people, particularly those who are currently least active or from under-represented groups, have the best opportunities to engage in sport and physical activity. Our Sporting Future strategy sets out how important it is for all children to have a good experience of sport and physical activity while they are young. We want all young people, regardless of economic background, to be healthy and active.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>To help achieve this Sport England is investing over £190m into physical activity for children and young people over 2016-2021, including programmes such as the £40m Families Fund, which encourages low-income families with children to do sport and physical activity together.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In July 2019 the Department for Education (DfE), Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), and Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC), jointly published the Government’s School Sport and Activity Action Plan (SSAAP). It sets out a joint commitment to ongoing collaboration to support the delivery of high-quality PE lessons and to ensure that sport and physical activity are an integral part of both the school day and after-school activities. This will contribute to the ambition of the Government’s Sporting Future strategy and the aim set out in the Childhood Obesity Plan that all children should take part in at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day, with 30 minutes a day in school.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The government also provides £320m of funding each year to primary schools through the PE and sport premium to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of PE, physical activity and sport. It is allocated directly to schools, so they have the flexibility to use it in the way that works best for their pupils. The amount of the PE and sport premium was doubled in 2017 to the current £320 million amount. The 2019 Primary PE and sport premium survey investigated the impact of this doubling of the PE and sport premium amount. Teachers reported improvements across all five key indicators for the PE and sport premium as well as other positive impacts such as increased participation in PE, extra-curricular sport and competitions for children from disadvantaged backgrounds (Pupil premium/Free School Meals) and pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 08/02/2021 14:37:28 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1252445

registered interest
date	16/11/2020
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 recent steps he has taken to improve the safeguarding of children and young people participating in sport.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	115498
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2020 answer text <p>We are completely committed to doing all we can to ensure children and young people can participate in sport in safe and secure environments. DCMS works closely with Sport England and the NSPCC’s Child Protection in Sport Unit to review and strengthen safeguarding provision wherever necessary.</p><p>All organisations in receipt of public funding from Sport England and UK Sport have been required to meet the standards set out in the Code for Sports Governance since April 2017. The Code contains specific obligations around safeguarding, including a requirement for national governing bodies to adhere to the Standards for Safeguarding and Protecting Children in Sport, which are issued by the Child Protection in Sport Unit. We have also taken steps to promote best practice in non-funded sports. The Safeguarding Code in Martial Arts was launched in March 2018 which sets consistent standards and provides parents with the knowledge they need to make informed decisions about where to send their children for instruction.</p><p>We welcome the Ministry of Justice’s commitment to change the law around ‘positions of trust’ in the Sexual Offences Act 2003. We will continue working closely with the Ministry of Justice to ensure that sports coaches are included as part of these legislative changes.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 19/11/2020 19:13:00 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1173169

registered interest
date	24/01/2020
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 Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to help increase the participation of children in sport.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	7651
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2020 answer text <p>The School Sport and Activity Action Plan sets out our commitment to ensuring that all children and young people have access to at least 60 minutes of high quality PE and physical activity every day. We are working closely with the Department for Education and the Department of Health and Social Care and will publish more detail on our ambitious plans later this year.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>I regularly meet with Sport England who are investing over £190m into physical activity for children and young people over 2017-2021. This includes programmes such as the £40m Families Fund, which encourages low-income families with children to do sport and physical activity together. Sport England is also investing up to £125m to improve sports facilities across England.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 29/01/2020 16:09:22 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1058920

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
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 his Department is taking to encourage children to participate in a range of sports outside of the school day.
tabling member constituency	Bexleyheath and Crayford
tabling member printed	Sir David Evennett
uin	219323
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>We want all young people to be healthy and active. That is why Sport England is investing over £194 million (between 2016-21) into projects focusing on improving children’s engagement in and enjoyment of physical activity. This includes £40m for projects which support families with children to get active together, and continued investment into satellite clubs.</p><p> </p><p>We are also working with the Departments for Education and Health and Social Care on a new cross-government action plan, to get kids active in and out of school, which will be published in spring.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 19/02/2019 13:29:46 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	1198 label Biography information for Sir David Evennett

1007804

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	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

862248

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
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 his Department is taking to tackle physical inactivity among children through sport.
tabling member constituency	Bexleyheath and Crayford
tabling member printed	David Evennett
uin	132667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>Government’s Sporting Future strategy, published in December 2015, set out 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. Sport England is also investing £3m through the Potentials Fund, which will look at ways to get young people involved in social action and volunteering using sport and physical activity.</p><p> </p><p>Government continues to invest in the School Games (around £17.5m per year) so that all children and young people have the best opportunities to engage in competitive sport. DCMS also works closely with the Department for Education and the Department of Health and Social Care on cross-government issues such as school sport and the Childhood Obesity Plan.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 22/03/2018 14:26:27 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	1198 label Biography information for Sir David Evennett

809770

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
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, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2017 to Question 118752, on Sports: Children, how many children the (a) Families Fund and (b) Potentials Fund aims to support; and how many schools those children attend.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	120390
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2018 answer text <p>The Families Fund and the Potential Fund are new investment approaches. Projects apply directly to Sport England for funding and are then assessed against a range of criteria. Both the Families Fund and Potentials Fund are still in the early stages of investment and Sport England will work with successful projects to understand their reach and impact as they are rolled out.</p><p> </p><p>16 awards totalling over £2.1m have so far been made from the Potentials Fund. This was announced in November 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Sport England is currently assessing applications to the Families Fund which will make available awards of between £50,000-£500,000. Final decisions on projects to be awarded funding will be made in March 2018.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 10/01/2018 09:44:30 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

804550

registered interest
date	11/12/2017
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, pursuant to the Answer of 7 December 2017 to Question 117380, what estimate he has made of the number of children who will take up organised sport as a result of that funding.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	118752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>Approximately 21,500 schools are engaged in the School Games programme, which is around 90% of schools in England. As of 30 September 2017 10,127 satellite clubs have been established and 579,246 participants engaged.</p><p> </p><p>The Families Fund and the Potentials Fund are new investment streams, and information on their impact will be measured by Sport England during the course of the projects</p><p> </p><p>Sport England have also developed the Active Lives: Children and Young People survey (ALC), which will provide a world-leading approach to gathering data on how children engage with sport and physical activity. The survey was launched in schools in September 2017 and results will be available from January 2019.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 19/12/2017 13:51:43 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

800759

registered interest
date	04/12/2017
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 her Department is taking to increase the provision of organised sport for children outside schools.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	117380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring that all children and young people, particularly those who are currently least active or from under-represented groups, have the best opportunities to engage in sport and physical activity. We are continuing to invest over £17 million annually in the School Games to ensure that children of all abilities are able to access high quality organised sport.</p><p> </p><p>Sport England is planning to invest £28m into Satellite Clubs between 2017-2021 to provide children and young people with opportunities to take part in sport outside of curriculum time. And through its new Families Fund, Sport England will be investing up to £40m into projects, which offer new opportunities for families with children to get active and play sport together. Sport England will also invest up to £3 million of National Lottery money through its new Potentials Fund which will support projects for young people (from ages 10 to 20) involved in social action and volunteering using sport and physical activity. This campaign is match-funded by the #iwill fund.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 07/12/2017 12:01:24 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris