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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what (a) arts and (b) sports participation for children his Department has supported since May 2010.

Between 2012-2016, the Government will spend over £400million on music and cultural education, which includes the continued support of the Museums and Schools programme that works to increase the number of people visiting regional and national museums in areas where take up has been traditionally low. We have also clearly shown our commitment to getting young people playing sport regularly by investing almost £450 million as part of Sport England’s 2012-17 Youth and Community Strategy. The Government has given primary school headteachers over £450million of funding to spend on improving PE and our own research shows they are using it to deliver more as well as better sport.