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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of (a) trends in participation in disabled sport and (b) the implementation of the Government's Paralympics 2012 legacy.

We remain committed to delivering a lasting sports participation legacy from London 2012 and support disabled people to realise their potential in sport. Figures from Sport England’s Active People Survey released on 11 June 2015 show that 1.56 million disabled people play sport regularly. This is an increase of almost 200,000 since 2005.

Since 2012 Sport England has made disability sport a key focus of its strategy and 42 of the National Governing Bodies of Sport (NGBs) it invests in have specific targets for increasing the number of disabled who play their sport. Sport England is currently investing over £171 million to make sport a practical and attractive lifestyle choice for disabled people and to get more disabled people playing sport.

Government is committed to ensuring a strong legacy from the London 2012 Paralympic Games. That is why the Government, in partnership with the Greater London Authority, established the Paralympic Legacy Advisory Group to help challenge and steer legacy plans.

In addition to Sport England's investments, Government is helping to deliver a legacy from the Paralympics through work such as:

· the Built Environment Professional Education Project, which aims to make sure built environment professionals have the knowledge, skills and attitude to deliver inclusive environments.

· the cross-government "Fulfilling Potential" strategy, which set out steps being taken to help disabled people realise their aspirations

· the Disability Confident campaign, which aims to remove barriers to disabled people gaining employment.

· the disabled sports fans' survey, part of joint working between the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to investigate and address inequalities in provision for disabled sports spectators."