Olympic Games: North of England
(asked on 18th May 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to ensure that the potential benefits of a potential Olympic bid in the north of England are distributed equitably across the region.
Answered by
Stephanie Peacock
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
London 2012 had a major socio-economic impact and left a lasting legacy for future generations, showing what hosting an Olympic and Paralympic Games can do for our country.
The North of England deserves the same level of ambition. It is central to the UK’s growth agenda and has the scale and economic assets to compete internationally. That is exactly why we want to explore what a Northern Olympics could mean, as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to drive transformational regeneration, job creation and infrastructure investment across the region.
The Government has therefore commissioned our expert arm’s length body, UK Sport, to carry out an initial strategic assessment examining whether it would be feasible for the UK to host an Olympic and Paralympic Games in the North of England in the 2040s.