Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of his Department's spending was allocated to grassroots sport in each year from 2010.
Between April 2010 and March 2019, The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has provided over £870m in Exchequer funding to Sport England, the arms-length body of government responsible for investing in and supporting grassroots sport in England. The table below provides a year-by-year breakdown.
Sport England Grant-In-Aid/Funding | |
Year | Outturn £'000 |
2010/11 | £121,389 |
2011/12 | £97,571 |
2012/13 | £99,814 |
2013/14 | £88,634 |
2014/15 | £83,044 |
2015/16 | £93,885 |
2016/17 | £105,649 |
2017/18 | £81,343 |
2018/19 | £98,765 |
Details of DCMS's Exchequer funding to other policy areas can be found in the department's annual reports which are available online.