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 and develop cricket in (a) St Helens, (b) Merseyside and (c) the North West.
Since 2010, Sport England has invested £39,097 in cricket projects in St Helens, £305,466 in Merseyside and £3,035,554 in the North West. In addition, Sport England have recently agreed funding of £7.6m for the ECB to deliver cricket nationally between 2017 and 2021.