Hugh Robertson news

A new marketing campaign has been launched to showcase the "best of British sport" around the world. The ‘Sport is GREAT’ has been timed to ... More

Sir Hugh Robertson, chairman of the British Olympic Association and a deputy lieutenant of Kent, attended Dover’s new £26m district leisure centre on 4 March ... More

The UK sports sector has been paying its tributes to former Labour cabinet minister Dame Tessa Jowell, who has died at the age of 70 ... More

Sir Hugh Robertson, the man who was sports minister during the 2012 London Olympic Games, has been elected as chair of the British Olympic Association. ... More

The legacy of the London 2012 Olympic Games was “done down” because sport participation figures were “undercounted quite dramatically” according to the former sports and ... More

Aerospace and technology giant BAE Systems will continue to act as UK Sport's official research and innovation partner in the run up to the Rio ... More

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is backing a bid to host the 2018 Gay Games in London. Founded in 1982, the Gay Games bring around ... More

The government has launched a new funding initiative aimed at boosting cultural tourism in England. The new Cultural Destinations scheme will offer grants between £250,000 ... More

The Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has announced details of funding for all its bodies - including a five percent cut to international ... More

Several winter sports are set to receive a combined investment of £443,200 to help with final preparations for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in ... More

New figures from Sport England reveal that 15.3 million people now play sport at least once a week. According to the figures - for the ... More

New analysis shows that 2012 saw a rise in the number of overseas visitors looking to experience the best of Britain, with Scotland proving an ... More

Tourism spend in the last 12 months has reached a record-high, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have revealed. In the year to ... More

The number of children partipating in sport increased significantly in the six months leading up to last year's Olympics and Paralympics, results from the DCMS' ... More

The former chief executive of the Royal Yachting Association, Rod Carr CBE, and London Marathon chief executive Nick Bitel have been appointed as chairs of ... More

The £7.8m Three Hills Sports Park in Folkestone, Kent, has been officially opened by minister for sport Hugh Robertson. Funded entirely by a donation from ... More

Travel and tourism industry body ABTA has issued a manifesto urging the government to support all three sectors of the industry – domestic, outbound and ... More

Dear member, We are delighted to invite you to attend our Parliamentary Reception which will be held at the House of Commons on Tuesday 12th ... More

Sports minister Hugh Robertson has officially axed plans to merge elite performance body UK Sport with grassroots organisation Sport England. Robertson said the two would ... More

Record numbers of women and men in England are playing sport every week, according to Sport England's annual Active People Survey. Now in its sixth ... More

Sport England has released figures which it says prove that its role as a planning application watchdog is working. According to Sport England, 1,373 out ... More

The London Assembly has called on the government to better protect the capital's playing fields. In a letter to culture secretary Hugh Robertson, the Assembly ... More

VisitEngland has announced plans to launch eight marketing campaigns in 2013 to boost domestic tourism next year. The campaigns will cover the four key themes ... More