MINISTERIAL WRITTEN STATEMENT. Tuesday 5 November 2013 SPORTING LEGACY

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1 Ministerial Support Team 4th Floor 100 Parliament Street London SW1A 2BQ T: MINISTERIAL WRITTEN STATEMENT Tuesday 5 November 2013 SPORTING LEGACY Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Sport and Equalities (Helen Grant MP): In July the Government and the Mayor of London published Inspired by This report detailed the range of impressive legacy benefits from London 2012 that had been delivered one year on from the Games. As Minister for Sport and Equalities, I am committed to delivering a lasting sports legacy from London 2012 for all. I would like to update the House on progress with the delivery of the Sport Legacy Action Plan since then. The June Active People Survey showed 15.3 million doing sport at least once a week, every week. That is 1.4 more people doing sport than when we won the bid in There was slight dip in figures for the previous 6 months, due to the exceptionally cold weather in January and March. The meta-evaluation of the 2012 Games impact and legacy benefits was published in July. 36% of children aged 5 to 10, 52% of children aged 11 to 15, and 25% of young adults aged reported that the Games had motivated them to do more sport. The annual children participation figures published in Taking Part in September. remained largely unchanged since 2008/09. While some measures showed a slight

2 decrease, there had been a significant increase since 2010/11 in the rate of year olds who had played cricket, dodgeball, rounders, tennis, table tennis, basketball, badminton and taken part in cross country, jogging or road running and athletics. Elite Sport Elite Funding In June, UK Sport published the medal targets for summer Olympic and Paralympic sports for their targeted competition events in UK Sport continues to track their progress towards Rio As part of the continued government funding for elite sport to 2016, all funded athletes have been asked to give up to 5 days a year to inspire children and young people to get involved in sport. UK Sport s first survey of this activity, published in July 2013, revealed that athletes had given more than 4,000 days to community and school sport since London World Class Facilities Good progress continues to be made on the transformation of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. All eight of the Park venues, including the five sporting venues, now have operators in place, to manage each of the facilities as the Park re-opens to the public between now and The Copper Box Arena re-opened in July this year and the London Lions British Basketball League Team will host 21 games for the 2013/14 season. Major Sports Events The UK has had an excellent summer of sport. Major events supported by the UK Sport Gold Series include: June

3 International Cricket Council Champions Trophy Canoe Slalom, World Cup Series Rowing World Cup Series European Athletics Team Championships Hockey World League IPC Para-Athletics Grand Prix Final July London Anniversary Games Athletics and Para Athletics August World Youth Netball Championships September Triathlon World Championship Series Final October London Grand Prix Badminton Rugby League World Cup November UCI Track Cycling World Cup Series We have also secured the right to host the following major sports events: World Cup Gymnastics 2013 Taekwondo Grand Prix 2013 Triathlon World Championships Series 2014 IPC European Athletics Championships 2014 BMX Supercross World Cup 2014 European Judo Championships 2015

4 European Wheelchair Basketball Championships 2015 Track Cycling World Championships 2016 European Swimming Championships 2016 We are currently bidding to host more events including: FINA Diving World Series 2014 European Modern Pentathlon Championships 2015 World Indoor Athletics Championships 2016 World Half Marathon Championships 2016 Men s Champions Trophy Hockey 2016 Men s World League Hockey 2017 Women s Hockey World Cup 2018 Community Places People Play 1,361 grassroots sports facilities have now benefitted from nearly 70m of Sport England investment. In August Sport England announced an extra 40m to extend the popular Inspired Facilities fund to Over 83,408 Sport Makers are now volunteering regularly in their local communities. The programme officially ended on 30 September, but Sport England will continue to support the volunteers. Another 30, year olds have competed the 6-8 week Sportivate coaching course, bringing the total number trying new sports to 256, % of these have

5 continued to play regularly since completion of the course. Youth Sport Strategy There are now over 1,181 satellite clubs in secondary schools. 100 of these are for girls only. More than 102,000 students have tried sport in the past year thanks to Sport England s Active Universities programme, surpassing its initial target by more than 20,000. Join In Join In had a target of supporting 10,000 events, across the UK, with 75% of them focusing on sport organisations with the remainder on community activities. They also hosted the Go Local event on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park which aimed to encourage 2012 volunteers to continue to inspire others to volunteer. An evaluation of the summer is currently underway and will be published near the end of the year. School Games 18,253 schools have registered for the School Games, of which 15,342 are fully engaged in the programme. This is an increase of 16%. Some 2000 schools have gained a School Games kitemark, (approximately 183 of these achieved the highest gold reward an increase from 69 schools the previous year). Over 100 County Festivals of Sport took place during the summer and winter, involving more than 100,000 young participants. The hugely successful School Games National Finals took place in Sheffield in September. 1,439 of some of the UK s best, young, elite athletes, 15% of whom were athletes with disabilities, took part in 12 different sports. 535 volunteers, including 411 young people, supported the competitors and spectators. Once again,

6 a delegation of young athletes from Brazil took place in 3 sports winning 15 medals. In return, the UK will send a team of some of our best young disabled athletes to compete at Brazil s School Paralympic-style Games in November, providing them with valuable experience in competing against high-class international competition at a major sporting event. PE/School Sport 150m per year of ring-fenced funding has now gone directly to Primary school head teachers to spend solely on PE and sporting provision. Sport England has provided additional funding to County Sport Partnerships to provide support and advice to schools on accessing the best sporting opportunities for their pupils. A new cadre of 120 primary school teachers with a particular specialism in teaching PE is being trained through a pilot scheme delivered by The Teaching Agency. Sport England has lowered the ages of their Sportivate and Satellite Club programs from 14+ to 11+ giving all secondary school children more opportunities to participate in community sport. Ofsted inspectors will report on how well the school uses its funding. Disability Sport Legacy On 7 September, Sport England announced a further 8 million of National Lottery funding to giving disabled people across the country more opportunities to get into sport: 7 million through a second round of the Inclusive Sport Fund and 1 million in Get Equipped a new disability fund. Sport England also invested 190,000 into the Special Olympics National Summer Games in September which saw 1,700 athletes from England, Scotland and Wales competing in 12 disciplines over 3 days.

7 International Development An independent evaluation of the International Inspiration programme has confirmed that more than 15 million children have benefitted from the programme in 20 partner countries. The programme has helped to promote sustainable change in these countries sports systems. I will continue to provide quarterly updates to the House on progress with delivery of this plan.

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