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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what support he provides for the promotion of circus skills (a) in local communities and (b) internationally.

In 2018/19 ACE provided almost £4 million of funding to organisations whose primary sub-discipline was circus related activity. This includes £163,798 of funding that was provided to organisations that work internationally.