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Written Answers
26 OCTOBER 2009
Written Answers
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Free swims: 60+
Local
authority
name April May June Q1 total
Amber
1,153 1,565 1,857 4,575
Valley
Bolsover 708 710 460 1,878
Chesterfield 1,734 2,048 2,474 6,256
Derby UA 1,928 2,008 1,998 5,934
Derbyshire
949 1,587 2,297 4,833
Dales
Erewash 2,350 2,528 3,074 7,952
High Peak 2,022 2,026 5,021 9,069
North East 2,894 3,239 3,691 9,824
Derbyshire
South
739 1,017 1,117 2,873
Derbyshire
Total 14,477 16,728 21,989 53,194
Natascha Engel: To ask the Secretary of State for
Culture, Media and Sport how many children in (a)
Derbyshire and (b) North East Derbyshire have taken
part in the scheme for free swimming for children under
16 years old. [294761]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The table shows the total number of
free swims that have taken place under the free swimming
scheme by people aged 16 and under across the Derbyshire
and North East Derbyshire areas in a given time period
(April/May/June/Q1 total). This is not a measure of the
total number of individual participants taking part in
free swimming, as the Department does not hold these
figures.
Free swims: 16 and under
Local
authority
name April May June Q1 total
Amber
944 3,486 2,066 6,496
Valley
Bolsover 2,105 1,843 1,077 5,025
Chesterfield 7,075 9,126 7,976 24,177
Derby UA 7,337 9,433 8,037 24,807
Derbyshire 2,774 2,468 2,426 7,668
Dales
Erewash 7,318 8,246 6,584 22,148
High Peak 5,347 4,197 9,782 19,326
North East 5,866 5,088 5,067 16,021
Derbyshire
South
1,491 2,232 2,249 5,972
Derbyshire
Total 40,257 46,119 45,264 131,640
Swimming: Finance
Mr. Hunt: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture,
Media and Sport how many applications there have
been for funding from Pot 4 of his Department’s
funding for its free swimming initiative; and in respect
of which swimming pools the applications have been
received. [295319]
Mr. Bradshaw: Sport England has advised that they
have received 173 eligible applications for funding in the
second round (2010-11) of Pot 4 of the Free Swimming
Capital Modernisation Programme.
The breakdown is as follows: 126 applications for
funding for public swimming pools (DCMS allocated
funding), and 47 applications for pools on educational
sites (DCSF allocated funding).
Video Games
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for
Culture, Media and Sport what assessment he has
made of the effect of the recession on the UK video
games industry. [295296]
Mr. Simon: We have not carried out an assessment of
the impact of the recession on the UK video games
industry. However, industry evidence suggests that the
UK games sector continues to demonstrate remarkable
success with total sales of £4.034 billion in 2008, a rise
of 23 per cent. from 2007.
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for
Culture, Media and Sport what the economic growth
rate in the UK video games industry has been in each
of the last five years; and what estimate he has made of
the likely rate of growth in 2009-10. [295297]
Mr. Simon: Accurate data on the video and computer
games sector is not readily available to the Department,
particularly as the sector has not had its own separate
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code. A new SIC
code for computer games has now been agreed though
this will not deliver data until 2010 at the earliest.
We do not project future trends of the markets but,
according to industry figures, since 2004 the UK Video
Games industry has experienced modest growth of around
4 per cent. per annum and this is projected to continue
to 2011.
Source:
Oxford Economics 2008
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for
Culture, Media and Sport what estimate he has made of
the contribution of the video games industry to the
UK’s gross domestic product in each of the last five
years; and what the estimated contribution is for 2009-10.
[295298]
Mr. Simon: Accurate data on the video and computer
games sector is not readily available to the Department,
particularly as the sector has not had its own separate
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code. A new
SIC code for computer games has now been agreed
though it will not deliver data until 2010 at the earliest.
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for
Culture, Media and Sport (1) how many people were
employed in the UK video games industry in each of
the last five years; [295299]
(2) what estimate he has made of the number of
redundancies in the UK video games industry in the
last 12 months. [295300]
Mr. Simon: Accurate data on the video and computer
games sector are not readily available to the Department,
particularly as the sector has not had its own separate
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code. A new
SIC code for computer games has now been agreed
though this will not deliver data until 2010 at the
earliest.
DCMS does not hold employment data of this kind.