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Sport: Anti-doping
Lord Luke asked Her Majesty's Government:
How much the chairman and chief executive of the Youth Sport Trust have been paid on an annual basis since the formation of the Youth Sport Trust. [HL353]
Lord Davies of Oldham: The Youth Sport Trust is a registered charity established since 1994. Details of individual salaries are therefore not held by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
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Sport: Community Club Development Programme
Lord Higgins asked Her Majesty's Government:
Which sports facilities are currently supported by the Community Club Development Programme; and how much financial support each facility has received since the inception of the programme. [HL348]
Lord Davies of Oldham: Since 2003, more than 1,000 sports facility projects have received Community Club Development Programme awards. I am arranging for lists of the facilities and awards to be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.
Sport: Ms Sue Campbell
Lord Luke asked Her Majesty's Government:
Following the Department for Culture, Media and Sport's press release on 26 August 2003 announcing the appointment of Ms Sue Campbell as interim chair of UK Sport, whether the appropriate safeguards were put in place to ensure no conflict of interest between this role and her advisory role to the Department for Education and Skills. [HL354]
Lord Davies of Oldham: I refer the noble Lord, Lord Luke, to my Answer of 29 November 2006 (Official Report, col. WA 66).
Sport: Talented Athlete Scholarships
Lord Higgins asked Her Majesty's Government:
How many individuals have received talented athlete scholarships; and how many of those individuals have achieved Olympic, world or European medal success. [HL349]
Lord Davies of Oldham: It is predicted that 2,729 athletes will have received talented athlete scholarships through the Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS) by the end of 2006-07. These figures break down as follows:
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Approximately 700 additional athletes supported (awaiting final confirmation of numbers) |
Athletes on the TASS programme are not generally at the performance level to be competing at Olympic, world or European championship level. There are notable exceptions, however; for example, the silver medal won by Shelley Rudman during the Turin 2006 Winter Olympics; the three European Athletics Championship medals won at Gothenburg 2006; and the 21 medals won by TASS athletes during the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games.
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Additionally, we have seen significant performances from TASS athletes at world and European junior championships; for example, the gold medals won by Harry Aikines Aryeetey at both the 100 metres and 200 metres at the 2005 World Youth Championships.
Sport: UK Sport
Lord Luke asked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will ask UK Sport to approach sponsorship agencies to assist in raising the £100 million sponsorship fund to support aspiring Olympians. [HL358]
Lord Davies of Oldham: The Government, supported by UK Sport, are currently exploring a number of options to raise £100 million from the private sector to help support our most talented athletes. We are also considering what external assistance may be required.
Sport: Youth Sport Trust
Lord Luke asked Her Majesty's Government:
What expertise was demonstrated by the Youth Sport Trust to secure funding for its Start Clean drug-free sport outreach programme; and when the competitive tendering process for the award of funding was initiated. [HL357]
Lord Davies of Oldham: Start Clean was the drug-free sport education programme set up by UK Sport in 2004. This was superseded by its 100 per cent ME programme in 2005. The Youth Sport Trust has not secured funding for, nor has any involvement in, either of these programmes.
Lord Luke asked Her Majesty's Government:
Lord Davies of Oldham: For work related to sports colleges and the joint DfES/DCMS school sport strategy, the following amounts have been paid to the Youth Sport Trust.
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Information on other government departments' expenditure is not held by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
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Suicide
Lord Alton of Liverpool asked Her Majesty's Government:
How they will respond to the call by the charity Papyrus for amendment of the Suicide Act 1961 which has the effect of banning internet sites which may incite people to, or advise people on how to, commit suicide. [HL162]
The Minister of State, Home Office (Baroness Scotland of Asthal): The Government take this difficult problem seriously and are taking a range of non-legislative steps to tackle it, including raising awareness of the potential dangers of suicide websites being accessed by vulnerable people; encouraging search engine companies to ensure that search results give prominence to sites offering help and support to people contemplating
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At the Government's request, the Law Commission has considered the law as it applies to suicide websites as part of its work on participation in crime. It concludes (in annexe B to its report Inchoate Liability for Assisting and Encouraging Crime, published on 11 July and available on its website) that the problems posed by suicide websites can be adequately addressed without reform to the Suicide Act 1961. But it recommends that the language of the legislation could be updated, and that consideration should be given to applying its proposed provisions on extra-territorial jurisdiction to the offence of assisting suicide. We will consider these recommendations carefully.
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