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Sports Colleges Conference

The Prime Minister’s Spokesman began by telling the assembled press that when speaking at the Youth Sport Trust’s Sports Colleges Conference, the Prime Minister would call for a national team effort by parents, teachers, sporting talents and volunteers to help make sport a central part in every child’s life and unlock their talent.

The Prime Minister would be announcing a number of initiatives, building on Ed Balls’ announcement yesterday of £30million over three years, to enable school sports facilities to be better used by communities. Among the Prime Minister’s announcements would be a National School Sports Week, starting on the 30th June 2008.

Asked how the Government would be encouraging school sports when school playing fields were being taken away, the PMS replied that the Government’s position on school playing fields was well documented. The PMS reminded people that we had seen an increase in the number of sports fields available, but he would check the details and get back to people.

Asked repeatedly if the Prime Minister played any other sports apart from tennis, the PMS said that the Prime Minister used gym facilities and liked to try and keep fit, as far as he could fit it into his busy schedule, but the PMS added that he did not want to get into the specifics and details of the matter.

Asked if there were any words for the Sport Colleges Conference, the PMS said he thought there would be something released, but the speech was a bit later in the day and would explain a bit more about what National School Sports Week was. It would be an opportunity in the year in which there would be various sports events organised, some at national level and some at a local level involving schools.

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