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Football: Public Participation

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Question for Department for Culture, Media and Sport

UIN 53057, tabled on 15 November 2016

Question

Richard Graham
Conservative
Gloucester
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how her Department monitors the Football Association's effectiveness in maintaining participation numbers of people playing football; and what account her Department takes of such numbers in future funding decisions.

Answer

Tracey Crouch
Conservative
Chatham and Aylesford
Commons

Answered on

18 November 2016

Sport England use the Active People Survey to monitor participation.

In May 2016, Sport England published its new strategy, 'Towards an Active Nation' that sets out how future investment in grassroots sport will be made. It includes an investment guide to all National Governing Bodies (NGB) for the 2017-21 period.Previous track record of delivery against targets in the 2013-2017 funding cycle will be part of that assessment. The NGB investment guide is available on Sport England’s website: https://www.sportengland.org/our-work/national-governing-bodies/investment-guide/

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Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
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