Oral QuestionDepartment for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

“What recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of funding for grassroots sports.”

Tabled: 13 October 2022Answered: 20 October 2022

Asked by

Imran Hussain

Labour — Bradford East

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Answer from Hansard

The Minister for Intergovernmental Relations and European Relations (Mr Hamish Falconer)

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for the important question. I would like to inform the House that the UK will reassociate with Erasmus+ from 1 January 2027. Applications open this November, and they are not simply for undergraduates and other university students, but for educational institutions of all kinds. I encourage right hon. and hon. Members across the House to work with the British Council and get their institutions engaged. That is one of the concrete ways that we will help young people through closer a relationship with the EU.