Exercise: Children
(asked on 11th February 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the levels of physical activity among secondary school children in (a) Bexley Borough, (b) London and (c) England in each of the last five years.
Data for school-age children and young people at local authority level is only available for the 2017/18 academic year. Data split by primary and secondary school age is not available at local authority level. Estimates are published by Sport England, using data from the Active Lives Children and Young People Survey.
Data for adults using the current Chief Medical Officers’ definition at local authority is only available for 2015/16 and 2016/17. Estimates are published by Public Health England, using data from the Active Lives Adult Survey.
The following table shows the estimated percentage of people meeting the aerobic physical activity recommendations among school-age children and adults for Bexley, London and England.
Percentage meeting physical activity recommendations
| Aged 5-16 years | Aged 19 or over years | |
2017/18 | 2016/17 | 2015/16 | |
Bexley Borough | 15.4% | 61.5% | 66.5% |
London | 16.8% | 64.6% | 65.8% |
England | 17.5% | 66% | 66.1% |
Notes:
- The data for children aged five to 16 years are published by Sport England, using data from the Active Lives Children and Young People Survey which is available to view at the following link:
https://www.sportengland.org/media/13698/active-lives-children-survey-academic-year-17-18.pdf
- The data for adults aged over 19 years are only available for the years 2015/16 and 2016/17 using data from the Active Lives Adult Survey. The data is available to view via the links:
https://www.sportengland.org/media/11498/active-lives-survey-yr-1-report.pdf