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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of which of his Department's policies has been most successful in achieving greater (a) sporting and (b) physical activity amongst women and girls since May 2010.

This Government has prioritised increasing women's participation in sport and Sport England has invested in a number of initiatives to this end. Each of these are evaluated both during and on completion of the project, in order to build knowledge and insight of behaviour change in this area. According to Sport England’s Active People Survey the number of women playing sport has increased by 423,600 since 2010.