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Services Sports

Volume 202: debated on Monday 27 January 1992

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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the official sports and games given financial support by (i) the Army, (ii) the Royal Navy and (iii) the Royal Air Force.

The following sports are financially supported by one or more of the services:

  • Association Football
  • Badminton
  • Basketball
  • Boxing
  • Canoeing
  • Cricket
  • Cycling
  • Equestrian sport/equitation
  • Fencing
  • Gliding
  • Golf
  • Hockey
  • Judo
  • Lawn Tennis
  • (Modern) Pentathlon
  • Rowing
  • Rugby Union Football
  • Sailing
  • Squash/Rackets
  • Table Tennis
  • (Sports) Parachuting
  • Athletics/Cross Country/Tug of War
  • Ski-ing/Bobsleighing
  • Swimming/Diving/Water Polo
  • Target Shooting/Rifle Shooting/Small Arms
  • Gymnastics/Trampoline
  • Angling
  • Motor Sports
  • Mountaineering
  • Orienteering
  • Volleyball
  • Sub acqua
  • Model Aircraft
  • Netball
  • Rounders

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much money has been allocated to individual sports in 1990–91.

The information requested is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.