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Dept for Culture Media and Sport

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Mr. Reed: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will list the amount of (a) World Class Performance, (b) World Class Potential and (c) World Class Start funding distributed by (i) UK Sport, (ii) Sport England, (iii) Sport Scotland, (iv) the Sports Council for Wales and (v) the Northern Ireland Sports Council in (x) 1998-99 and (y) 1999-2000, and the provisional figures for 2000-01; and if he will list the sports in receipt of World Class lottery funding and how much they received from each of the above bodies. [110028] Kate Hoey: The World Class Performance Programme is administered by Sport England and UK Sport. World Class Potential and Start Programmes are administered solely by Sport England. A number of sports have submitted applications to Sport England under the Start and Potential Programmes which have been approved or approved in principle, but to date no payments have been made. Alternative programmes for the elite level sport are in place in the Home Countries. The sums awarded to elite sport appear in the following table: £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 UK Sport--World Class{1} 21,839,545 17,129,000 {2}18,000,000 Performance Programme Sport England--World Class 27,366,285 17,330,962 {3}-- Performance Programme Sport Scotland--Talented Athlete 1,694,338 887,703 {3}-- Programme Sport Scotland--Scotland Junior 150,349 383,151 {3}-- Groups Sports Council for Wales--Elite 634,781 570,764 {2}750,000 Cymru{4} Sports Council for Northern 422,584 348,306 {3}-- Ireland--Development Of Talented Individuals Programme _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} UK Sport became a Lottery distributor in its own right from 1 July 1999. Before this time the Home Country Sports Councils were jointly responsible for funding World Class Performance on the basis of recommendations and advice of the UK Sports Council. {2} Provisional figure. {3} Information unavailable. {4} The figure from Elite Cymru includes funding towards hosting major events. The following activities have received support to date under the World Class Performance Programme which is administered by Sport England and UK Sport: Athletics Disability Athletics Badminton Wheelchair Basketball Bobsleigh Boccia Boxing Cycling Women's Cricket Canoeing Diving Equestrian Goalball Gymnastics Ladies Golf Hockey Ice Skating Judo Karate Modern Pentathlon Netball Orienteering Rowing Rugby Football League Women's Rugby Wheelchair Rugby Skiing Sailing Speed Skating Squash Swimming Disability Swimming Paraplegic Shooting Disability Table Tennis Wheelchair Tennis Table Tennis Target Shooting Ten Pin Bowling Triathlon Trampolining Water Skiing Weightlifting. The information required for the latter part of the question is not held within my Department.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

344 c850-1W; 110028

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Finance Sports Sport England Sports Council for Wales UK Sport Sport NI Sportscotland World class performance programme World class start programme World class potential programme

Contains statistics

Yes