Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how her Department plans to allocate the additional Sport Premium funding announced in Budget 2016.

We want all pupils to be healthy and active. This is why since 2013 the government has invested over £600m of ring-fenced funding to primary schools to improve PE through the Primary PE and Sport Premium.

As announced in Budget 2016, from September 2017 revenue from the soft drinks industry levy will be used to double the funding for the Premium to £320 million a year, enabling schools to further improve the quality and breadth of PE and sport that they offer.

We are currently reviewing how best to allocate the doubled funding for September 2017 onwards, and will announce further details in due course.