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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of sports funding at a grassroots level.

We are committed to supporting more people to take part in sport and physical activity so that they can enjoy the significant and wide-ranging benefits that this brings.

Through Sport England, over 2016-2021, government is investing over £1.2 billion in supporting people to be more active, including a specific focus on those people who are inactive and engaging people from underrepresented groups. This is over £170m more than Sport England's previous strategy period (2012/13 – 2015/16).