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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to increase numbers of post-16 college students taking part in physical and sporting activity.

Sport England is focused on getting more young people playing sport regularly, and is investing in a wide range of projects at further education and sixth form colleges to help achieve this.

Sport England’s £8 million Further Education Activation Fund has already invested £6 million in 100 colleges. The latest round of funding made awards to 63 projects which will reach 72 institutions across England, helping 59,000 more students start playing more sport.

It has also invested £17 million to recruit and support 153 College Sport Makers whose job is to get more students playing sport in colleges.

Sport England is investing £1.3 million over three years in the Association of Colleges Sport - a new organisation that is working with the national governing bodies of sport and appropriate national agencies to increase participation and competition in colleges.