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

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Twycross on 17 September (HL719), how much they have invested in football facilities between 2022 and 2024.

The Government provides the majority of funding for grassroots sport through our Arm’s Length Body, Sport England - which annually invests over £250 million in Exchequer and Lottery funding in areas of greatest need to tackle inactivity levels through community-led solutions.

Between 2022 and 2024, Sport England and delivery partners in other parts of the UK, invested £161 million into grassroots football facilities, providing new and upgraded pitches and facilities.

In 2024/25, the Government and our partners are investing £123 million UK-wide. This funding will provide clubs and sites with new and resurfaced pitches, changing rooms and pavilions, maintenance machinery, floodlights, goalposts, and more.