Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what metrics he has used to determine the effectiveness of school sports premiums.

The Primary PE and Sport Premium survey, published in July 2019, assessed the impact of the doubling of the PE and Sport Premium to £320 million from September 2017.

The findings indicated that a large majority of schools identified that, following the doubling of the premium, there had been increases in the profile of PE and sport in supporting whole school improvement, the confidence, knowledge and/or skills of all staff in teaching PE, the level of competitive sport being offered, and the range of PE and sport being offered.

The detailed findings can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/primary-pe-and-sport-premium-survey.

In addition, local Active Partnerships conduct an annual review of a large sample of schools’ uses of their PE and Sport Premium including impact, and report the results of this review to the Department.