Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to ensure that football ground staff are equipped with clear lines of complaint and procedures for dealing with victims of crime within football grounds.

Stewards and ground staff play a vital role in ensuring the safety and security of spectators. Operational delivery of sports grounds safety at individual grounds is ultimately a matter for the ground management. Local Safety Advisory Groups are the multi-agency forums where ground management, police and other local agencies come together to develop a corporate approach to site specific spectator safety, including ensuring that stewards have the necessary training and that incident reporting lines, including those relating to potentially criminal incidents, are clear to all staff.