Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to support people to increase the amount of exercise they take over the summer.

The Department is working with other Government Departments to support people to increase levels of physical activity. The Department’s Better Health social marketing campaign, including Couch to 5k, Active 10 and the Better Health Families website supports adults and children and their families with the tools to reap the physical and mental health benefits of being physically active. The Department is also currently running Better Health: Rewards in Wolverhampton, a digital health incentives pilot that supports users to improve their step count and minutes of weekly physical activity.