Health committee  Thank you very much.

Health committee  Jamie Oliver was the chef who went in, and when the Prime Minister asked him, he went around to do the survey. There's a big investment now going into children's school meals, as we call them. The increase in the subsidy on those meals is what you're referring to, and those figures are exact.

Health committee  Yes, it's on course now, it and started in the 2005-06 financial year.

Health committee  I don't know, but I will make sure that all the figures for the investment in school meals, both baseline and additional, are sent to the clerk of your committee. I don't have those figures at my fingertips; it's not my department. I'll make sure those figures are furnished to your committee.

Health committee  I'm just going out for dinner.

Health committee  First of all, there are the U.K. School Games. The very first one we ran was last year, in Glasgow. The next one will be in Coventry, and then we will be announcing, in a few weeks' time, the other four. So every year now we are building up through every school sport partnership, through to the regions, and then nationally, and every year, starting last year, as it were, we will have the U.K.

Health committee  Yes, very much so. My officials are here now, and there are a few officials who I think my officials will be working with. Whatever documentation you want we will make sure is forwarded to you. On the Olympics, specifically, I'll make sure that note has been taken of that. On the U.K.

Health committee  We share them internationally.

Health committee  Yes, it has started. Ofcom announced the new rules on November 17, 2006, which will be published in March. There will be full implementation on July 1. There'll be no what we call fat, salt, and sugar advertising in children's programs, including those for pre-school children; no HFSS advertising on dedicated children's channels; no HFSS advertising on programs of particular appeal to children under 16; no celebrities or licensed characters to be used in ads for those; and no nutritional health claims in the fat, sugar, and salt ads aimed primarily at children.

Health committee  We're invested in a number of areas now with our national governing body. We think, first of all, the cultural shift will be that when a young person has had the experience—and hopefully a nice experience—of participating in sport, they will want to continue beyond the school gate and therefore will join the local cricket club, multi-sports club, rugby club, or whatever.

Health committee  No, it's not mandatory. The only thing that is mandatory, actually, is swimming, but that's for safety reasons, not physical activity reasons. There is now an acceptance, within the curriculum, that everybody does their two hours. That I think is now being broadly accepted by the sheer force of the argument that where we have increased physical activity in sport, academic attainment level has gone up, truancies have come down, exclusions have come down, and the schools are playing a wider role in the community in which they are located.

Health committee  Yes, very much so. In fact, we were looking at some stats the other day that showed that the nation has never been more united than on the day of July 6, 2005, when we actually won the Olympics. The whole nation was behind that and still is behind it. It's been a fantastic opportunity to engage more people in thinking about sports and physical activity, probably more than anything else could.

Health committee  We actually had to go through a learning curve on that. The vast majority of young people want to be involved in team sport for the competition. We have competition managers now. That is very, very important as far as sport is concerned. With many of the informal sports such as skateboarding, BMXing, dance, and others, young people will not necessarily be involved in team sports and hard competition.

Health committee  Very much so. We're doing that now, and we've come from a very low base, as I said a little earlier. Only 20% of our kids got two hours of sport or physical activity. We've moved that. You're absolutely right in what you're saying about physical literacy: it is important. We have now put a whole series of pilot schemes into the primary sector in particular, where we believe it will have the greatest gain.

Health committee  We have recognized it. We haven't gotten the solution. At this point, there are discussions going on with the Department of Health, my department, and the Department of Education on what should be on a child's end-of-year report. Besides his academic attainment, we believe, and I believe, that the BMI ought to be there as well.