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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government in which Olympic and Paralympic sports there has been a reduction in real terms in funding support from UK Sport since 2012.

UK Sport makes funding awards on a four year cycle in line with the Olympic and Paralympic calendars, and is currently supporting 46 Summer & Winter Olympic and Paralympic sports. These four year awards are reviewed each year through the Annual Investment Review process which measures sports against an agreed set of annual targets. The 18 sports which have seen a reduction in funding since 2012 are:

Archery

Badminton

Basketball

Goalball

Handball

Judo

Powerlifting

Swimming

Synchronised Swimming

Table Tennis

Visually Impaired Football

Volleyball (indoor, sitting and beach)

Water polo

Wheelchair fencing

Wheelchair basketball

Wrestling