Is better local leisure coordination the key to a more active nation? Lords Committee to ask Local Government Association and local leisure organisations

Is better local leisure coordination the key to a more active nation? Lords Committee to ask Local Government Association and local leisure organisations

The new House of Lords Committee on a National Plan for Sport and Recreation will this week take evidence on local delivery of sport and recreation activities.

The Committee will hear from the Local Government Association, the Active Partnership Network, Community Leisure UK and others as it seeks to understand how sport and recreation is delivered locally, whether opportunities and facilities are properly joined-up and what more can be done to deliver accessible opportunities for people to enjoy physical activities.

The evidence sessions will start at 3:30pm on Wednesday 16 December and can be followed live at www.parliamentlive.tv

The witnesses giving evidence will be:

3:30pm

• Kirsty Cumming, CEO, Community Leisure UK

• Nigel Harrison, CEO, Yorkshire Sport Foundation

• Lee Mason, CEO, Active Partnerships Network

4:30pm

• Ian Brooke, former Chair, Chief Cultural and Leisure Officers Association

• Cllr Gerald Vernon-Jackson CBE, Chair, LGA Culture, Tourism and Sport Board,

Local Government Association

In the first session areas covered will include whether the delivery of sport and recreation opportunities is fragmented and disjointed, whether enough high quality extra-curricular sports activities are available in schools and issues around availability of green spaces and leisure facilities in local communities.

The second session will feature questions on whether funding mechanisms for local delivery of sport and recreation are fit for purpose, the role of local authorities in providing sport and recreation opportunities to help tackle obesity and how local authorities are responding to changes in the physical activity people undertake.