Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has plans to promote physical activity amongst children in the school holidays.

The government wants all pupils to be healthy and active, which is why PE remains a compulsory subject at all four stages of the national curriculum, and why we are doubling funding for the PE and Sport Premium to £320m a year.

We know that children’s levels of physical activity can drop off over the summer holidays, and there are a number of initiatives under way across Government to improve levels of physical activity in children outside of school.

These include a new £40 million investment from Sport England into projects which offer opportunities for families with children to get active and play sport together outside school, and the Change4Life programme which aims to inspire everyone to eat well, move more and live longer.

Schools may also choose to use their PE and Sport Premium funding to provide extra-curricular activities for pupils during school holidays.