Source · Select Committees · Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Recommendation 46
46
Accepted
What is required is a decisive shift: a coherent, cross‑government strategy that addresses the recommendations...
Conclusion
What is required is a decisive shift: a coherent, cross‑government strategy that addresses the recommendations we have made in this report and sets a clear, long‑term plan for building a more active nation through community and school‑based sport and physical activity. (Conclusion, Paragraph 147)
Government response summary AI-generated
The government states it is currently working on a National Plan for Physical Activity, which will outline a cross-government, place-based approach to increasing physical activity and will set consistent targets, directly addressing the need for a coherent strategy.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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The Government is currently working on a National Plan for Physical Activity, a commitment in the Government’s 10 Year Health Plan: Fit for the Future. The intention for the plan is to outline the Government’s shift to a place-based approach to tackling inactivity, which focuses on local delivery and investment. It will demonstrate what steps Government departments and public bodies, including DCMS, DHSC, DfE, Department for Transport and Sport England, are taking to increase physical activity and tackle inactivity through a place based approach. This approach will encourage cross-programme and cross-system collaboration, involving stakeholders from the sport, leisure, health and civil society sectors, working directly with communities to invest locally and target groups that need the most support. The plan will set out a consistent target to annually reduce inactivity rates through a place based approach.
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