Exercise: Equality
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of disparities in physical activity levels within individual constituencies, and how these disparities are addressed in national health policy.
Answered by Ashley Dalton
Data on the percentage of physically active adults is published in the Public Health Outcomes Framework. The data is not published at constituency level, but rather at a national level and for local authorities. Further information is available at the following link:
https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/public-health-outcomes-framework/data
As committed to in the 10-Year Health Plan, we aim to address physically inactivity and help build movement into everyday lives through investing in grassroots sports, developing a new Physical Education and school sports partnership network to support children to reap the benefits of movement, and supporting cycling and walking infrastructure.
The NHS Better Health Campaign promotes ways for people of all ages to move more, and signposts to digital support like the NHS Couch to 5k and the NHS Active 10 walking app, providing free and accessible ways of building movement into everyday life.
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