Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking with cabinet colleagues to develop further details of the Government’s strategy on physical activity; and what role the Department of Health and Social Care is playing in that work.

The Government is developing a cross-government National Plan for Physical Activity, fulfilling the recommendation of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee and referenced in the NHS 10-Year Health Plan.

Working jointly with the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Education, this Plan will tackle physical inactivity by embedding sport into local communities. It will align major cross-departmental investments to maximize impact, including DCMS facilities funding, Sport England reform, and Active Travel funding.