Football: Coronavirus

(asked on 5th February 2021) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2021 to Question 145789, how much funding has been allocated to each step of the footballing pyramid in (a) men's football and (b) women's football, through the initial allocations of the Sports Winter Survival Package.


Answered by
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Nigel Huddleston
Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 10th February 2021

On 19 November 2020, the government announced a £300 million Sports Winter Survival Package (SWSP) to provide a lifeline to organisations that would otherwise not survive the winter as a result of the restriction on spectators announced from 1 October.

A provisional allocation of £28 million was made to support football, covering women’s football (£3 million), National League Steps 1-2 (£11 million) and Steps 3-6 (£14 million). Preliminary allocations of funding from the SWSP were made on a needs based assessment process which reflected the submissions made from individual sports last autumn.

Decisions on how much each sport receives through the Survival Package are made by an independent board based on a rigorous assessment of need. We will announce details of those decisions in due course.

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