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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to grant charitable status to grass-root sports clubs.

Grassroots sports clubs can achieve status comparable to charitable status through the existing Community Amateur Sports Clubs (CASCs) scheme.

If a sports club is eligible, and achieves CASC status it would receive tax relief on income, gains and profits from some activities, Gift Aid repayments on donations and business rates relief. For more information on CASCs, grass-roots sports clubs can visit the Sport England website.