To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much of the £750 million pledged by the Prime Minister to school sport at the 2000 Labour Party Conference has been (a) committed and (b) spent. (101621)

[holding answer 21 November 2006]: Latest figures from the big lottery fund show that New Opportunities for PE and Sport (NOPES) funding has now been fully committed. 2,780 sports facilities projects across the United Kingdom have benefited and 1,397 (50 per cent.) of these projects are already completed and in use.

To date, £418,900,000 (56 per cent.) has been drawn down by local education authorities.