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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much of the Flood Relief for Sport has been (a) allocated to local authorities and (b) received by sports facilities.

Sport England’s flood relief fund has invested £1,195,800 into local sports facilities that were damaged as a result of the winter storms of 2013/14. All eligible applications were successful and the fund is now closed to new applications

(a) £58,905 was allocated to local authorities, and £1,136,895 was allocated to community sports clubs, trusts and charities which operate at a local level.

(b) All Flood Relief awards made to date have been invested in sports facilities.