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 improve access to all-weather football pitches at grassroots level.

Through Sport England we are working in partnership with the FA and the Premier League on a new National Football Facilities Strategy that sets a clear framework for significant investment in football facilities over the next 10 years. The Strategy includes a target of delivering 1000 artificial 3G pitches across the country in that period. These include single site pitches in schools and community areas and multiple pitch sites through the FA Parklife hubs programme.