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WQ.105/2024
WRITTEN QUESTION TO THE MINISTER FOR SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
BY DEPUTY L.K.F. STEPHENSON OF ST. MARY, ST. OUEN AND ST. PETER QUESTION SUBMITTED ON MONDAY 25th MARCH 2024
ANSWER TO BE TABLED ON MONDAY 3rd APRIL 2024
Question
“Will the Minister confirm the total amount budgeted across all Government Departments in 2023 and 2024 for sport and physical exercise, excluding capital projects, and broken down by head of expenditure?”
Answer
Department for Economy
The Department for Economy provides grant funding to Jersey Sport along with support for sporting events, performance sport and a dedicated Sport sector officer[1].
• 2023: £2,289,000[2]
• 2024: £2,429,000[3]
Department for Infrastructure and Environment
The I&E Department maintain the Sport Division of 109.5 budgeted FTEs who maintain and operate the Island’s publicly owned sports facilities. Additional funding is provided from the I&E budget to support Active Travel and to finance the E-Bike grant scheme[4].
Sports Division Budget
• 2023: £3.875m
• 2024: £4.181m
Climate Emergency Fund
The fund provides funding to support the following: E-Bike grant scheme
• 2023: £151,000
• 2024: £149,800
EVie Trial scheme
• 2023: £30,000
Active Travel (Community engagement such as love to ride)
• 2023: £47,291
• 2024: £182,100
Department for Health and Community Services
Information relating to Health and Community Services rehabilitation programmes such as cardiac and
pulmonary rehabilitation has not been included as it is not possible to directly correlate the element of rehabilitation directly related to physical activity.
Cabinet Office
Public Health grant fund Jersey Sport for the physical activity element of their Family Food and Fitness programme shown below.
• 2023: £76,963
• 2024: £76,963
Department for Children, Young People, Education and Skills
Further to WQ.43/2024 the department does not hold this information centrally, each school has delegated funding and the department does not hold any central budget for this purpose.
Department for Customer and Local Services
ConnectMe Grants support a range of organisations to support islanders to take part in cultural and physical activities. The total for grants to sport and physical activities in the years requested is:
• 2023: £ 124,471
• 2024: TBC – grant scheme is live now.
Channel Island’s Lottery
The Jersey Community Foundation, which receives 50% of CI Lottery funding, allocates 35- 45% of its funding to sport and active lifestyle.
• 2023: £290,009 (this included a top up grant in November 2023 from unclaimed Lottery prizes)
• 2024: Up to a maximum of £222,305 subject to P.15/2024 and dependent on applications being received from eligible organisations.