Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department takes to provide advice to parents and carers on ensuring primary school-aged children undertake the recommended amount of physical activity each day.

The Government’s Childhood Obesity Plan sets out a range of actions to promote physical activity in primary school aged children.

In terms of advice to parents, Change4Life is Public Health England’s flagship social marketing programme aiming to inspire a social movement, through which government, the National Health Service, local authorities, businesses, charities, schools, families and community leaders could all play a part in helping children to eat well and move more and specifically that children need 60 minutes of physical activity each day.

Change4Life Sports Clubs are specifically targeted at the least active young people. They are run as extracurricular clubs held at lunchtimes and after school and use sport as a vehicle to promote physical activity, health and wellbeing.