Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent steps has she taken to help ensure that older people can engage in community sports in Lincolnshire.

The Government is committed to ensuring that everyone should have access to and benefit from quality sport and physical activity opportunities to stay fit and healthy.

DCMS’s arm’s-length body, Sport England, invests Exchequer and Lottery funding across the country to increase participation in sport and physical activity for under-represented groups, including older people.

In Lincolnshire, this is delivered through close collaboration with the Active Partnership, Active Lincolnshire, who champion physical activity with local leaders to develop interventions tailored to communities.