Written questions

Leisure: Finance

Commons · Question 33111 · Tabled 24 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 4 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Max Wilkinson

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of local government reorganisation on the (a) delivery of and (b) funding for (i) leisure and sports service

Answer

Answered by Jim McMahon, 4 Mar 2025

The funding of local cultural services and organisations is a matter for individual councils, but the Government strongly supports their doing so, not least because of the significant economic, social, and wellbeing benefits cultural organisations deliver...