Pupils: Exercise

(asked on 9th March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking, if any, to ensure girls in primary schools meet the recommended levels of activity in the UK.


Answered by
Baroness Berridge Portrait
Baroness Berridge
This question was answered on 1st April 2020

The government published its ‘School sport and activity action plan’ in July 2019. It set out cross-government action to provide children with greater opportunity to take part in the recommended 60 minutes of sport and physical activity every day, on average. This included actions relevant to supporting girls in primary school to be more active.

Since 2013, the government has provided over £1 billion to primary schools to improve the quality of their physical education (PE) provision, through the PE and Sport Premium. Details can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pe-and-sport-premium-an-investigation-in-primary-schools.

The government is working to promote girls’ and women’s sport more widely. Sport England will provide £1 million funding to help girls’ confidence to take part in sport and activity as part of the successful This Girl Can campaign, which has already inspired over 3.9 million women and girls to take steps to get active.

The government will publish an updated school and sport activity plan following the Comprehensive Spending Review and will consider what more can be done to promote physical activity by girls to include in that plan. Ahead of that, the Budget has confirmed that £90 million will be provided over the next four years to support primary school PE teaching and help schools make best use of their sports facilities.

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