Sports: Disabled People Mr. Hunt 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. Mr. Sutcliffe 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------ |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 ----------------------------------------------------------- | |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| -----------------------------------------------------------