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Sports: Disabled People

Volume 480: debated on Wednesday 15 October 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much funding has been allocated to support (a) sports for disabled people and (b) disabled athletes from (i) the National Lottery and (ii) his Department as grant-in-aid in each year since 1997. (224977)

Funding in support of sports for disabled people, and for disabled athletes is provided by Sport England and UK Sport. Sport England and UK Sport have advised that detailed breakdowns of funding for individual athletes could be provided only at disproportionate cost, but they have provided figures for overall grants in each year since 1997 as follows:

Sport England

National lottery funding for disability sports since 1997

Financial year

Sport

Total (£)

1997-98

Disability sports

2,529,705

1998-99

Disability sports

1,356,236

1999-2000

Disability sports

6,570,802

2000-01

Disability sports

1,821,324

2001-02

Disability sports

7,096,401

2002-03

Disability sports

726,763

2003-04

Disability sports

5,405,069

2004-05

Disability sports

1,735,983

2005-06

Disability sports

343,254

2006-07

Disability sports

70,409

2007-08

Disability sports

636,903

2008-09

Disability sports—Playground to Podium

4,516,781

Grand total

32,809,630

Exchequer funding for disability sports since 1997 is as follows:

Financial year

Organisation

Total (£)

1997-98

English Federation of Disability Sport

1

1998-99

English Federation of Disability Sport

1

1999-2000

English Federation of Disability Sport

1

2000-01

English Federation of Disability Sport

1

2001-02

English Federation of Disability Sport

1

2002-03

English Federation of Disability Sport

1,050,000

Panathlon Foundation

243,000

2003-04

English Federation of Disability Sport

1,050,000

Panathlon Foundation

12,000

2004-05

English Federation of Disability Sport

1,050,000

Panathlon Foundation

10,000

National Council for School Sport

10,000

London Sports Forum for Disabled People

2,000

2005-06

English Federation of Disability Sport

1,010,333

2006-07

English Federation of Disability Sport

951,066

English Federation of Disability Sport

476,033

2007-08

English Federation of Disability Sport

1,100,000

Grand total

6,964,432

1 No records

UK Sport

Paralympic funding

Lottery

Exchequer

National governing body

Athletes personal award

National governing body

Total (£)

1997-98

222,000

487,000

0

709,000

1998-99

839,000

1,500,000

0

2,339,000

1999-2000

1,592,000

1,870,000

0

3,462,000

2000-01

1,689,000

1,862,000

0

3,551,000

2001-02

2,094,000

1,532,000

26,000

3,652,000

2002-03

2,182,000

1,566,000

50,000

3,798,000

2003-04

2,278,000

1,562,000

40,000

3,880,000

2004-05

2,356,000

1,681,000

40,000

4,077,000

2005-06

3,041,000

1,239,000

329,000

4,609,000

2006-07

3,612,000

1,793,000

1,226,000

6,631,000

2007-08

2,610,000

2,319,000

3,075,000

8,004,000

Total

22,515,000

17,411,000

4,786,000

44,712,000