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 access to sporting activities for children in low income households.

The Government’s recently published ‘Sport Strategy’ (https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/486622/Sporting_Future_ACCESSIBLE.pdf) sets out plans for all children to benefit from participating in sport - regardless of their background or socioeconomic status.

Through the new strategy, for the first time Sport England will invest in sporting provision for children aged five and over - previously the starting age was 14 years old.