Department for Culture, Media and Sport written question – answered at on 25 November 2025.
Lord Moynihan
Conservative
To ask His Majesty's Government how much of the budget of UK Sport has been directly allocated to UK national governing bodies of sport in each of the past 10 years.
Baroness Twycross
Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip), The Minister of State, Department for Culture, Media and Sport
UK Sport publishes a full breakdown of funding to UK national governing bodies across all Olympic and Paralympic Games cycles.
Current funding awards for the Los Angeles 2028 cycle ( https://www.uksport.gov.uk/our-work/investing-in-sport/current-funding-awards ) can be found on UK Sport’s website as well as historical funding figures for the Rio, Tokyo and Paris Games ( https://www.uksport.gov.uk/our-work/investing-in-sport/historical-funding-figures ).
Based on these published allocations, UK Sport has invested approximately £1.25 billion directly into Olympic and Paralympic performance sports programmes since the Rio 2016 cycle.
Historical Funding Figures (pdf, 317.8KB)
Current funding awards (pdf, 254.1KB)
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