Sports: Kent

(asked on 11th December 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the number of adults in (a) Kent, (b) Medway and (c) Gillingham and Rainham constituency that have taken part in at least one sporting activity each week in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Helen Grant Portrait
Helen Grant
Shadow Solicitor General
This question was answered on 17th December 2014

Sport participation data is from the Active People Survey which is the main measure of the number of people aged 16 and above taking part in sport in England. The 2013/14 data will be released in January 2015.

Gillingham and Rainham

Kent

Medway

2012/13 (APS7)

n/a¹

483,100 (34.3%)

71,600 (33.5%)

2011/12 (APS6)

n/a¹

465,100 (33.3%)

69,600 (32.9%)

2010/11 (APS5)

n/a¹

435,400 (32%)

48,700 (23.7%)

2009/10 (APS4)

n/a¹

444,600 (33.1%)

67,100 (33%)

2008/09 (APS3)

n/a¹

432,900 (32.4%)

59,400 (29.4%)

¹Sample size too small to provide figure

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