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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of her Department’s response to (a) recommendation H and (b) that recommendation's stipulation of an expectation of further action from the football authorities in the Fan-led review into football governance report, published 24 November 2021.

We firmly believe that increasing the level of financial redistribution between the leagues will help improve the financial health of football clubs.

The Fan Led Review recommended that football should seek to resolve issues related to financial distribution itself, and the government agrees that the ideal outcome is for football to solve this problem. We are continuing to push for a football led solution, and we remain in close engagement with all relevant parties in seeking this. We remain open to granting backstop powers to the regulator if football cannot come up with a solution to distributions, and we will provide an update on this in the White Paper.