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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to promote interest in fencing.

At grassroots level, government is investing funding of £1.7 m between 2017 and 2021 in British Fencing. The recently published Active Lives survey shows that 25,000 people in England regularly take part in fencing. On Friday 3 February Sport England announced that it will be investing a further £500,000 in British Fencing to support talented fencers with a potential further £500,000 to be invested in the future.

At elite level, Wheelchair Fencing will receive £668,000 during the 2017-21 Tokyo Paralympic Cycle, increased from £194,886 during the 2013-17 Rio cycle.