Health and Sports: Departmental Responsibilities

(asked on 22nd March 2023) - View Source

Question

To ask His Majesty's Government what recent assessment they have made of the recommendation in the House of Lords National Plan for Sport and Recreation Committee’s report A national plan for sport, health and wellbeing (HL Paper 113, Session 2021–22) to establish a new ministerial post with responsibility for sport, health and wellbeing.


Answered by
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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
Shadow Minister (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport)
This question was answered on 28th March 2023

While His Majesty’s Government welcomed the report of the House of Lords’ Committee on a National Plan for Sport and Recreation, we do not agree with its proposal to establish a separate, new ministerial post for Sport, Health and Wellbeing.

The Government is committed to improving the health of the nation, including through supporting sport and activity, within its existing structures. Ministers and officials at Government Departments including the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the Department of Health and Social Care, and the Department for Education work closely together on policies to promote sport, health and wellbeing.

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