To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what estimate he has made of the number of school sport helpers who have begun working in schools in the last six months. (133426)

Through the national School Sport Strategy’s sports leadership and volunteering programme:

6,433 young volunteers are engaged in sports volunteering in their schools and local communities; and,

over 16,000 students were this year involved in planning and running over 1,800 festivals of sport and sports days.