PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Sports: Finance (7 January 2019)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of sports funding at a grassroots level.
Asked by:
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour)
Asked by:
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour)
Answer
We are committed to supporting more people to take part in sport and physical activity so that they can enjoy the significant and wide-ranging benefits that this brings.
Through Sport England, over 2016-2021, government is investing over £1.2 billion in supporting people to be more active, including a specific focus on those people who are inactive and engaging people from underrepresented groups. This is over £170m more than Sport England's previous strategy period (2012/13 – 2015/16).
Answered by:
Mims Davies (Conservative)
15 January 2019
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