Written question asked by Baroness May of Maidenhead (Conservative) on Thursday, 3 November 2005, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 7 November 2005. It was answered by Richard Caborn (Labour) on Tuesday, 15 November 2005 on behalf of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Olympic Games

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what representations her Department has made to the Treasury on funding for the British Olympic Association programme Clearing the Bar; and what her policy is on the source of baseline funding for the UK Olympic team in preparation for 2012.

Answer: I understand that the British Olympic Association's report ‘Clearing the Bar' will be available later this year. We will consider the report then in discussion with UK Sport, the Government's lead adviser on high performance sport.Lottery funding is the primary source of public funding for UK's elite athletes. Some Exchequer funding supports UK Sport's World Class Performance Programme by focusing on corporate governance and organisational performance.The Government are investing considerable amounts of public funding in high performance sport. In advance of the Beijing Olympic Games, UK Sport will invest a total of £121.6 million lottery and exchequer money in elite sport (2005–09). This includes investing £75.3 million in the World Class Performance Programme to support the National Governing Bodies in financing their performance plans, and £22.5 million for the Athletes Personal Awards scheme to help athletes pay their sporting and living costs.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 25973; 439 c1136-7W;439 c1136W
Session: 2005-06
Subjects: Capital investment Standards Sports British Olympic Association World class performance programme
Contains statistics: Yes
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