Department for Culture Media and Sport

sport

We advise Ministers, drive forward sport sector programmes and projects, and work with the sports delivery NDPBs.

DCMS aims to help deliver the three key priorities that the Minister for Sport has set out:

  • support the bid to bring the 2018 World Cup to England
  • deliver a safe and successful Olympic Games in 2012
  • achieve a real and sustainable legacy for the 2012 Olympics

What we do

We:

  • maintain a core of expert knowledge on sport, and relationships with the sport sector more generally, to enable us to provide high quality policy advice to Ministers.
  • drive delivery of key programmes and projects in the sport sector, such as setting up an Olympic style competition structure in schools.
  • manage the Department’s relationship with the sports delivery NDPBs:
    • Sport England, which invests money in grassroots projects to increase and sustain participation in sport
    • UK Sport, which is responsible for developing high performance sport in the UK and also for bringing major events to the UK through its World Class Events Programme
    • UK Anti-Doping, which is responsible for ensuring that the UK complies with its international obligations to tackle doping in sport through the delivery of the UK Government’s anti-doping policy

We also:

  • support initiatives to promote equality in sport
  • support professional sports in the UK and represent their interests in government, in Europe and internationally
  • together with HMRC and the CCPR, promote the Community Amateur Sports Club scheme, which offers certain tax reliefs to local amateur sports clubs