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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the ALB - UK Sport- Aspiration Fund.

The department agrees objectives and KPIs for UK Sport’s grant funding and their board allocates funding in accordance with those objectives. The department and its public bodies deliver all grant funding in line with the Government Functional Standard GovS 015: Grants.

The Aspiration Fund aims to support sports who do not currently receive full UK Sport World Class Programme funding to develop plans to help teams and athletes realise ambitions at future Olympic and Paralympic Games. This fund is central to delivering on UK Sport’s ambition of powering a broader, more diverse range of champions in a wider variety of Olympic and Paralympic sports.