Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of how many adults in (a) East Lancashire, (b) Lancashire and (c) the North West exercised for at least 30 minutes a week during the most recent period for which figures are available.
The Department has made no such estimate. However, the Active People Survey commissioned by Sport England measures the proportion of adults (aged 16 and over) who undertake some form of physical activity at moderate intensity (or higher). Data from the most recent survey can be found in the following table.
Active People Survey (APS) data, 2012
Proportion of the adult population (age 16 years and over) participating in 30 or more equivalent minutes of moderate activity per week.
Area | 30+ minutes |
England | 71.5% |
North West Region | 68.8% |
Lancashire County | 69.6% |
Blackburn with Darwen UA | 63.1% |
Blackpool UA | 65.1% |
Burnley | 65.0% |
Chorley | 75.3% |
Fylde | 68.0% |
Hyndburn | 63.7% |
Lancaster | 74.4% |
Pendle | 66.1% |
Preston | 69.3% |
Ribble Valley | 74.1% |
Rossendale | 66.8% |
South Ribble | 69.5% |
West Lancashire | 73.3% |
Wyre | 65.6% |
Source: Active People Survey, Sport England
Notes:
www.noo.org.uk/data_sources/physical_activity/activepeople
www.sportengland.org/research/active_people_survey.aspx