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Sport: Youth Sport Trust

Volume 687: debated on Thursday 7 December 2006

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What expertise was demonstrated by the Youth Sport Trust to secure funding for its Start Clean drug-free sport outreach programme; and when the competitive tendering process for the award of funding was initiated. [HL357]

Start Clean was the drug-free sport education programme set up by UK Sport in 2004. This was superseded by its 100 per cent ME programme in 2005. The Youth Sport Trust has not secured funding for, nor has any involvement in, either of these programmes.

asked Her Majesty's Government:

How much the Youth Sport Trust has received each year from public funds since January 2000. [HL356]

For work related to sports colleges and the joint DfES/DCMS school sport strategy, the following amounts have been paid to the Youth Sport Trust.

Financial year

DfES (£)

DCMS (£)

Total (£)

2000-01

938,695

-

938,695,

2001-02

1,135,624

-

1,135,624

2002-03

1,842,368

1,041,150

2,883,518

2003-04

4,841,881

1,394,000

6,235,881

2004-05

9,040,225

2,187,000

11,227,225

2005-06

15,959,487

2,534,500

18,493,987

2006-07

10,151,296 to date

1,880,189 to date

12,031,485 to date

Information on other government departments' expenditure is not held by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.