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Sports: Finance

Volume 485: debated on Monday 15 December 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much per capita was spent from the public purse on sporting infrastructure in each of the last five years. (240334)

Sport England have advised that they have spent the following amounts on capital projects in each of the last five years:

Financial year total

Per capita spend (£)

2003-04

0.01

2004-05

0.33

2005-06

0.28

2006-07

0.53

2007-08

0.76

Population figures source: Office for National Statistics Website, figures as follows:

Population England (Million)

Mid 2003

49.866

Mid 2004

50.111

Mid 2005

50.465

Mid 2006

50.763

Mid 2007

51.092

This does not include other sources of capital spend on sport, such as local authority spend.