Asked by: Nicholas Brown (Independent - Newcastle upon Tyne East)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what financial support her Department has given to motorcycle speedway since the start of the covid-19 outbreak.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
The government has provided up to £600 million support through the Sport Survival Package to spectator sport organisations throughout the pandemic. To date, we have publicly announced more than £230 million support which has helped hundreds of organisations survive whilst restrictions on crowd capacities have been in place. Speedway clubs have received over £300,000 in loan support from the package to date.