At the Conservatives' annual conference last week Hugo Swire, the shadow culture secretary, said grass-roots sport is "in crisis" following increases in bureaucracy, and reductions in the amount of lottery money that goes to sport.
"A third of all our children are still doing less than two hours of physical exercise a week," he said. "We want to make sure our young people have access to regular organised sports facilities in the community. And it will be competitive sport. Because we all know how important that is."
The report, produced by the Centre for Young Policy Studies, will be published by the end of the year. A conference on the findings will follow early in 2007.
The Conservative Party is particularly keen to increase sports provision for young people from deprived backgrounds. It is interested in how this group can be given access to a more varied range of sports including martial arts.
A statement from the party also stresses the importance of taking part because it is enjoyable, not to achieve an end.
