Culture Media and Sport written question – answered at on 3 March 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport what recent assessment he has made of rates of participation of young people in boxing.
The previous Government's 2009-10 school sport survey showed that 10% of schools offered boxing to their pupils.
Latest actual data show that the National Governing Body for Boxing, the Amateur Boxing Association of England, increased the number of 5 to 19-year-olds joining its accredited clubs, or receiving skills awards, or both, by 3,491 in 2009-10, to reach a total of 14,315 young people.
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