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839114

registered interest
date	08/02/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Sports: Governing Bodies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether he plans to review the effectiveness of the new Sports Governance guidelines over the next 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	127673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>Following a robust assessment process, on 20 December 2017 Sport England and UK Sport made a formal statement on the current levels of compliance with the Code for Sports Governance of the 58 national governing bodies (NGBs) of sport that they fund. UK Sport and Sport England are working with the other organisations that they fund to assess compliance against the Code and are now working to develop and embed an ongoing, risk-based approach for assessing whether organisations continue to be compliant over the longer term.</p><p> </p><p>The transparency expectations in the Code (Principle 3) place an onus on the funded organisation and emphasise the importance of providing clear and relevant information to stakeholders regarding the funded organisation’s decision-making and performance. One of the aspects of the Code is that organisations subject to it are expected to publish an Annual Governance Statement which should provide a summary of how the organisation in question is complying with the Code, including any areas that require action or improvement.</p><p> </p><p>We have been clear that compliance with the Code for Sports Governance is not a tick box exercise and that the sport and physical activity sector needs to make substantive and enduring changes to the way it approaches governance to secure lasting improvements.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also been clear that organisations must continue to strive to embrace and live the values, cultures and behaviours that are at the heart of the Code, and that any organisations deemed at any stage to be non-compliant with the requirements of the Code are at risk of having their funding removed.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to discuss with the leadership of Sport England and UK Sport in the coming months the effectiveness of the Code and the impact it is having within the sector.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 20/02/2018 13:33:59 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

834692

registered interest
date	01/02/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Lotteries: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department plans to reform the regulations on society lotteries.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	126140
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2018 answer text <p>We are carefully considering the issues around society lotteries raised by the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee and continue to take advice from the Gambling Commission as we consider policy options.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 06/02/2018 10:34:12 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

823139

registered interest
date	15/01/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Sports: Clubs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment her Department has made of the financial viability of amateur sports clubs involved in (a) cycling, (b) rugby and (c) football.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	122822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>DCMS is not aware of recent assessments of the financial viability of amateur sports clubs involved in cycling, rugby or football.</p><p> </p><p>It would be within the remit of NGBs (National Governing Bodies) to assess the financial viability of their affiliated clubs.</p><p> </p><p>The NGBs for cycling, rugby and football all have sections on their websites on the Community Amateur Sports Club (CASC) Scheme. The scheme was introduced in April 2002 and allows local amateur sports clubs to register with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and benefit from a range of tax reliefs, including Gift Aid, where they meet qualifying conditions.</p><p> </p><p>A Club Survey was commissioned last year by Sport England to explore a number of issues including whether finances and funding are a cause for concern among clubs. The results are due at the end of February this year and Sport England would be happy to share the results of this survey in due course.</p><p> </p><p>As recommended in the government sports strategy Sporting Future, The new Sports Business Council is looking into how to maximise income potential across sport particularly in light of falling lottery receipts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 18/01/2018 13:34:15 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

802983

registered interest
date	08/12/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Football: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps are being taken to ensure that BAME coaches experience adequate opportunities in sports that operate under the UK Sports umbrella.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	118403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2017 answer text <p>Government’s sport strategy ‘Sporting Future’, published in December 2015, noted that just 5.5% of elite coaches were from Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, demonstrating that high performance coaching was not drawing its talent from the widest pool available. It commissioned UK Sport to review what steps could be taken to remove barriers to minority groups (and women) progressing into high performance coaching roles with a view to diversifying the talent pool and ultimately improving overall performance.</p><p> </p><p>UK Sport has since put a number of activities and processes in place to help increase the number of high quality opportunities for BAME coaches. For example their Elite Coaching Team works with role models to encourage other coaches to apply for relevant roles, and they work with Sporting Equals on data relating to BAME people, which forms part of the Sporting Equals' Leaderboard National Steering Group. One of the aims of this group is to develop and share toolkits that sports can use to help diversify their recruitment, and in particular recruit more BAME staff. UK Sport also use results from the sport-wide Culture Health Check to analyse emerging trends around equality and diversity issues, and they work closely with the Sports Councils’ Equity Group with Home Country Sports Councils to develop consistent approaches to equality and opportunities with national governing bodies.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 13/12/2017 10:11:36 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

795094

registered interest
date	24/11/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Gambling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of whether the gambling industry has invested 0.1 per cent of gross gaming yield in supporting those who suffer from gambling-related harm in the last year.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	115636
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2017 answer text <p>In its Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice the Gambling Commission requires all operators licensed under the Gambling Act 2005 to make a contribution towards the research, prevention and treatment of gambling-related harm. The Commission does not specify how much this should be nor which organisation should receive it, although it highlights that GambleAware is the principal funding body for RET (research, education, treatment). The gross gambling yield for those operators in 2016/17 was £10.7bn, and they collectively contributed over £8m to GambleAware. In addition, the industry also made donations directly to charities providing support for those suffering from gambling related harm, and funded other initiatives such as Senet’s ‘When The Fun Stops Stop’ campaign. In 2016/17 Senet funding was £1.7m.</p><p> </p><p>In January 2017 the Gambling Commission’s expert advisers, the Responsible Gambling Strategy Board (RGSB) estimated that £9.3m, excluding GambleAware costs, would be required in 2017/18 to support the strategic priorities for RET that it had identified. The consultation on proposals for changes to Gaming Machines and Social Responsibility, published on 31 October, makes clear that government expects the gambling industry to increase funding to meet the targets for future years identified in the RGSB and GambleAware strategies.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 04/12/2017 16:40:46 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

794436

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Sports: EU Grants and Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much (a) funding in total UK sports have received from the EU in each of the last 10 years and (b) funding for infrastructure assistance, such as artificial pitches.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	115409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>UK organisations have been able to access EU funding for sports projects since 2014, through Erasmus+. Erasmus+ is the EU's programme to support education, training, youth and sport in Europe, and runs from 2014-2020. Its focus is on educational mobility and exchange projects, and it does not provide assistance for infrastructure projects.</p><p> </p><p>Erasmus+ has seen UK-led sports partnerships allocated around €4m between 2014-16. Sport England received £42,843 in 2014-15 and £33,440 in 2015-16 from Erasmus+ for activity in support of the European Week of Sport.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 28/11/2017 17:17:42 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

789999

registered interest
date	15/11/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Sports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which groups she has met to discuss pension and workplace rights for elite GB athletes who receive UK Sport or National Lottery funding; and when those meetings took place.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	113333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>No such meetings have taken place. Financial support for individual athletes is made through the Lottery-funded Athlete Performance Awards which serve to contribute to meeting the athlete’s ordinary living costs and their personal sporting costs, and are awarded on an annual basis subject to a number of criteria including athletes' level of performance.</p><p> </p><p>As promised in the Sporting Future strategy, Government commissioned an independent report by Baroness Grey-Thompson on the Duty of Care owed by sport to its participants. That report was published in April and covered a range of issues relating to elite and grassroots sport. UK Sport is ​currently considering that report in the context of making improvements to the high performance system.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 20/11/2017 15:01:04 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

780418

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Kick It Out
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many times the Minister for Sport has met representatives from Kick It Out since her appointment (a) in total and (b) in each year.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	110380
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2017 answer text <p>I most recently met with Gordon Taylor, the CEO of the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA), as part of a discussion on how sports can improve its offer of help to athletes suffering with mental health on 17<sup>th</sup> October 2017, and with representatives of Kick It Out as part of a homophobia in sport roundtable on 22<sup>nd</sup> March 2017.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Details of further ministerial meetings are published quarterly on Gov.uk</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch grouped question UIN 110381 110382 110383 question first answered 03/11/2017 13:08:05 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

780419

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Professional Footballers Association
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the date was of the last occasion on which the Minister for Sport met with a representative of the Professional Footballers Association.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	110383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2017 answer text <p>I most recently met with Gordon Taylor, the CEO of the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA), as part of a discussion on how sports can improve its offer of help to athletes suffering with mental health on 17<sup>th</sup> October 2017, and with representatives of Kick It Out as part of a homophobia in sport roundtable on 22<sup>nd</sup> March 2017.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Details of further ministerial meetings are published quarterly on Gov.uk</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch grouped question UIN 110380 110381 110382 question first answered 03/11/2017 13:08:05 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

780420

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Professional Footballers Association
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many times the Minister for Sport has met representatives of the Professional Footballers Association since her appointment (a) in total and (b) in each year.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	110382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2017 answer text <p>I most recently met with Gordon Taylor, the CEO of the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA), as part of a discussion on how sports can improve its offer of help to athletes suffering with mental health on 17<sup>th</sup> October 2017, and with representatives of Kick It Out as part of a homophobia in sport roundtable on 22<sup>nd</sup> March 2017.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Details of further ministerial meetings are published quarterly on Gov.uk</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch grouped question UIN 110380 110381 110383 question first answered 03/11/2017 13:08:05 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens