While the Government keep under review the roles and responsibilities of the public agencies for sport, there are no immediate plans to transfer responsibility and funding of high performance programmes in non-Olympic sports from Sport England to UK Sport.
Prior to April 2005, national governing bodies were awarded funding by Sport England specifically to support their World Class Performance programmes. The following awards were made to non-Olympic sports for the period April 2004 to March 2005:
Sport Funding awarded (£) England and Wales Cricket Board 2,000,000 English Golf Union 450,000 English Ladies' Golf Association 513,000 English Karate Governing Body 531,905 England Netball 1,529,430 British Orienteering Federation 304,000 Rugby Football League 1,500,000 Rugby Football Union 1,000,000 Rugby Football Union for Women 1,397,671 England Squash 772,800 British Water Ski 176,589
Since April 2005, Sport England has awarded funding to non-Olympic sports to support the delivery of their four-year strategic plans and has not ring-fenced funding for high performance programmes within the overall allocation per sport per plan. National governing bodies apply the funding they receive to deliver against a range of key performance indicators (KPIs). Sport England has said that it is not, therefore, possible to identify specific funding amounts for high performance programmes.
The exceptions to this are the Football Association and the Lawn Tennis Association, neither of which has any elite-orientated KPIs and apply funding devolved to them through their whole sport plans solely to grassroots and development activities.