Sports: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much (a) Sport England, (b) UK Sport, (c) the Football Foundation and (d) the Youth Sport Trust received in grant-in-aid funding from his Department in each year since 1997. (290769)

Table 1 shows the grant in aid funding from DCMS for Sport England and UK Sport since 1997.

*£ million*
	Sport England	UK Sport
1997-98	33.758	11.791
1998-99	33.341	11.548
1999-2000	37.523	12.600
2000-01	38.323	12.750
2001-02	43.162	16.773
2002-03	80.324	16.321
2003-04	44.572	23.175
2004-05	74.456	23.500
2005-06	78.963	29.305
2006-07	102.500	53.105
2007-08	113.296	67.305
2008-09	133.163	72.201

The Football Foundation and the Youth Sport Trust do not receive grant in aid funding directly from DCMS, but are funded by Sport England.

Sport England has advised that they allocated the following amounts to the Football Foundation and the Youth Sport Trust, since their records began in 2003.

*£ million (to nearest thousand)*
	Football Foundation	Youth Sport Trust
2004-05	2.141	2.235
2005-06	4.518	2.658
2006-07	22.064	2.593
2007-08	18.307	2.754
2008-09	21.796	3.991

Volume 496: debated on Wednesday 9 September 2009