UK Sport is the Government's lead agency for elite sport in the UK and a lottery distributor. The table provides details of the level of Government and national lottery funding to UK Sport over the last five years.
Exchequer funding Lottery funding Total 2002-03 5,100,000 22,100,000 27,200,000 2003-04 11,500,000 17,700,000 29,200,000 2004-05 16,400,000 14,300,000 30,700,000 2005-06 16,300,000 15,700,000 32,000,000 2006-07 35,400,000 40,500,000 75,900,000
Over the next five years UK Sport plans to invest approximately £508.6 million of Exchequer and lottery money in elite sport.
Sport England provides some funding for English non-Olympic sports at elite level and, prior to April 2006, also provided elite funding to English Olympic sports. This funding was wholly from the lottery and was made via Sport England's world class programmes. This ran between1997 and 2005 and a total of £236,679,512 was provided over this period.
Since 1 April 2005, Sport England's investment in national governing bodies (NGBs) has been made via whole sport or one stop plans. Between 2005 and 2009 Sport England estimates that £59 million will be distributed to support elite sport
On 9 March Sport England launched its proposals for NGB investment between 2009 and 2013. This will determine future funding for non-Olympic elite sports.
The plan is to have funding agreements in place by March 2008.
Figures from Sport England show that the following capital amounts have been spent to build or refurbish elite sports facilities (defined for this purpose as the English institutes of sport and the national sports centres) over the period 02-03 to 06-07:
Exchequer funding Lottery funding Total 2002-03 0 24,792,379 24,792,379 2003-04 100,000 3,525,565 3,625,565 2004-05 391,000 49,833,172 50,224,172 2005-06 1,117,000 0 1,117,000 2006-07 624,000 0 624,000
In addition, DCMS, Sport England and the London Development Agency have contributed £161 million (£120 million Lottery and £41 million Exchequer) towards the cost of the Wembley Stadium project which opened its doors for the first time on 17 March 2007; and Sport England and DCMS have contributed £11 million towards the cost of the Lee Valley athletics centre (£7 million lottery and £4 million Exchequer) which opened formally in January 2007.
Sport England anticipates spending an additional £3 million in the period up to 2007-08 on the national sports centres.
Funding on elite sports facilities beyond 2007-08 will be subject to the outcomes of the comprehensive spending review.
UK Sport distributes lottery funding each year, through the world class events programme, to support NGBs’ bidding and staging costs for major sporting events. Between 2002 and 2006 UK Sport invested £1.6 million a year in this programme. From 2007 it will be investing £3.3 million a year.
The big lottery fund money has not allocated any funding to support elite sport.