Youth Sport Trust: Finance

(asked on 5th December 2018) - View Source

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

To ask Her Majesty's Government how much funding from lottery and central government sources has been given to the Youth Sports Trust in each of the last ten years.


Answered by
Lord Ashton of Hyde Portrait
Lord Ashton of Hyde
This question was answered on 20th December 2018

The Youth Sport Trust has received both exchequer and lottery funding from Sport England over the past ten years. A breakdown is listed below, and the full awards list can be found on Sport England's website here: https://www.sportengland.org/media/13641/all-awards-april-2009-sept-2018.xlsx

Every investment Sport England makes is put through a rigorous assessment and approval process. Where investments are repeated Sport England endeavour to market test these offers every 3-4 years. Sport England investments in the Youth Sport Trust have been awarded either through open competition or were commissioned via a rigorous assessment and approval process including testing value for money.

The Youth Sport Trust has also received grants or other funding from a number of different government departments during this period.

Year

Sport England funding

2009/10

3,560,668

2010/11

4,275,668

2011/12

11,784,637

2012/13

9,890,825

2013/14

8,895,000

2014/15

9,150,000

2015/16

5,070,306

2016/17

6,044,057

2017/18

5,505,383

2018/19 (to date)

2,165,037

Total

66,341,581

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