The inquiry will look at the funding available for sport in the community, how volunteers can be better supported and how to open up grassroots sport to under-represented groups. It will also look at the role of schools in delivering sporting opportunities both in and outside of school hours and how children can be supported to develop a positive life-long relationship with physical activity.

The Committee will additionally investigate the ways in which national and local government, clubs, sports organisations and sports governing bodies can work together to improve the delivery of school and grassroots sport.

The inquiry will examine issues with funding and whether current finance models are suitable and accessible.  It will also engage with how the Government can tackle practical and regulatory challenges, such as the availability of skilled practitioners, the managed decline of assets on publicly-owned land, and policy issues arising from net zero targets and planning policy.

Alongside this, MPs will highlight the importance of built heritage for economic regeneration and to community identities, as well as how those communities can be empowered to manage their local built heritage assets.

State of Play inquiry is a chance for everyone – from those in the UK creative industries through to people involved in emerging media, and sports that often go under the radar -  to send in their ideas on what the Culture, Media and Sport Committee should be examining.

We want to hear what a difference could the Committee make to your work?. We will be considering:

• Whether this is a topic that falls wholly or mainly within the responsibility of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

• Whether the Committee, Government or other relevant body has recently undertaken work on this topic

• What impact the Committee and Government can have in dealing with the issues being raised

• The breadth of support from the relevant sector(s)

• The urgency of any potential action

• Whether the proposal can be considered effectively in a single evidence session

Please take part in our short survey here: State of Play: We want to hear from you

You can complete the submission form until 23:59 on Friday 19 February.  It will reopen later in 2025 in order to give you further opportunities to submit your views to the Committee.

• the factors influencing the threat levels against candidates and MPs, and 

• the effectiveness of the response to such threats, 

and make recommendations about: 

• the arrangements necessary to secure free and fair elections, and 

• the appropriate protection of candidates at future UK-wide parliamentary elections and of elected representatives thereafter.