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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to support sports facilities in (a) Medway and (b) Kent.

Making sure that good quality and affordable sports facilities are available and accessible to people from all backgrounds and ability levels is a central element of the government Sport Strategy 'Sporting Future'. In the Medway area we have invested over £1m of exchequer and lottery funding through Sport England, into 46 projects since 2010 and since 2011 more than £540,000 in 22 projects in Gillingham and Rainham.