Sports: Grants

(asked on 1st September 2023) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the ALB-Sport England-Core Market Fund.


Answered by
Stuart Andrew Portrait
Stuart Andrew
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
This question was answered on 11th September 2023

The department agrees objectives and KPIs for Sport England’s grant funding and their board allocates funding in accordance with those objectives. The department and its public bodies deliver all grant funding in line with the Government Functional Standard GovS 015: Grants.

The ‘Core Market Fund’ has been used to categorise several Sport England funding streams and investment categories that Sport England have delivered on. As a result, we have identified investment and funding streams within this category that best reflect the impact of said category: namely, the Sport Survival Package.

The Sport Survival Package (SSP) was a time limited government response programme addressing the impact of spectator restrictions on sport organisations during the covid pandemic. The programme operated until March 2022, but the majority of funding was distributed in the period Dec 2020 – March 2021. Over 1400 grant awards were made totalling over £60.7 million. Alongside grant funding, the SSP distributed over £218 million loan funding into the sector to commercial sport organisations. The evaluation for the Sport Survival Package will be published in due course.

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