Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 24 June 2002.
I welcome the programme, especially the £800,000 that was indicatively allocated to my borough. However, the fact that the money goes through the lottery rather than the Government means that primary schools in particular find it impossible to get access to the money because they have to demonstrate 40 hours a week of community use. Will the Secretary of State try to ensure that that rule is applied flexibly, so that in future more children under 11 have access to sport in their schools?