Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the (a) absolute and (b) proportionate change in per capita funding allocated to sports and leisure was between 2010-11 and 2013-14 in each local authority area.

Data on the expenditure on Recreation and Sport by local authorities are published online in the Revenue Outturn Cultural, Environmental, Regulatory and Planning Services (RO5), which are available at the following link:

http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing

Recreation and Sport is amongst the services supported through the Business Rates Retention Scheme. Both retained business rates and revenue support grant, together with council tax, are unringfenced funding streams meaning that authorities can use them on any service. It is not, therefore, possible to say how much funding has been provided for these services.