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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the potential role of sport in the Government's strategies to tackle serious violent crime.

We are clear that sport and physical activity has a key role to play to tackle serious violent crime in our community. At the Prime Minister’s Summit on Serious Violence on 1st April 2019, government departments, the National Governing Bodies of sport, the Premier League and other partners announced they are working together on a ‘sport offer’ to improve interventions to tackle violence.

Sport and physical activity can help people to gain skills, build confidence and potentially reduce violence and recidivism.