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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how her Department monitors the Football Association's effectiveness in maintaining participation numbers of people playing football; and what account her Department takes of such numbers in future funding decisions.

Sport England use the Active People Survey to monitor participation.

In May 2016, Sport England published its new strategy, 'Towards an Active Nation' that sets out how future investment in grassroots sport will be made. It includes an investment guide to all National Governing Bodies (NGB) for the 2017-21 period.Previous track record of delivery against targets in the 2013-2017 funding cycle will be part of that assessment. The NGB investment guide is available on Sport England’s website: https://www.sportengland.org/our-work/national-governing-bodies/investment-guide/