PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Local Government Finance: Leisure (3 September 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of Government funding for local authorities on local authority spending on sports and recreation.

Asked by:
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour)

Local authorities are the single biggest investors in community sport, spending around £1 billion a year. Sport England works with a wide range of local authorities, providing expert advice and funding to sustain and increase the number of people playing sport regularly.

Answered by:
Rishi Sunak (Conservative)
11 September 2018