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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans the Government has to invest in sporting infrastructure to increase physical activity levels in the UK.

The government's Sporting Future strategy emphasised the important role that well-designed, customer-focused facilities can play in supporting people to get and stay active. Sport England invests National Lottery and Exchequer money to improve the quality and features of all types of facilities, from small local clubs to major projects.

Through its Strategic Facilities Fund, Sport England is making up to £40m of National Lottery funding available over 2017-2021 to invest in facilities across England. In January 2017, Sport England launched its Community Asset Fund, which makes awards of between £1,000-£150,000 to support projects that seek to improve or enhance spaces and facilities that help to get communities more active.