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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to ensure that funding reaches sporting organisations at a grassroots level.

Government's Sporting Future strategy, published in December 2015, set out that in future, all funding for grassroots sport should deliver five key outcomes; physical wellbeing, mental wellbeing, social and community development, individual development and economic development.

Sport England are government's arms length body with responsibility for grassroots sport. Sport England invest lottery and exchequer funding on behalf of government to get more people from every background involved in sport and physical activity.

Sport England launched its own strategy, Towards an Active Nation in 2016. Since then it has awarded £532 million across a wide range of projects and organisations, many receiving investment for the first time. 
A list of Sport England’s investment programmes, with descriptions and key dates, can be found on its website at: www.sportengland.org/funding/funding-key-dates/