The House of Lords Committee on a National Plan for Sport and
Recreation will this week hold evidence sessions on the impact of
physical activity on mental health and how people can be
encouraged to change their behaviour to be more active.
The Committee will hear from the Behavioural Insights
Team and leading academics on how people can be encouraged and
supported to be more active, and then from Mind and Sport in Mind
on the impact of physical activity and mental
health.
The evidence sessions will start at 3:30pm on
Wednesday 20 January. The witnesses giving evidence to the
Committee will be:
3:30pm
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Dr Kathryn Atherton, Advisor,
Behavioural Insights Team,
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Professor Kim Edwards, Professor of
Sport, Exercise and Nutrition Education,
University of Nottingham
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Professor Dame Theresa Marteau,
Director of Behaviour and Health Research
Unit, University of Cambridge
4:30pm
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Hayley Jarvis, Head of Physical
Activity, Mind
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Paul Owen OBE, Sporting
Ambassador, Sport in Mind
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, Co-founder, Sporting Memories
Foundation
In the first session the Committee will ask the
witnesses how effective government behaviour change campaigns
have been in encouraging people to be more active, whether the PE
national curriculum is effective in fostering an active and
healthy lifestyle among children, and what more can be done to
prevent people giving up on sport at key ‘life moments’ such as
leaving school or starting work.
The second session will see questions on how the
impact of physical activity on mental wellbeing can be measured,
the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and physical
activity, and the options for prescribing exercise to treat
mental health.
The sessions will be available to watch live and on
demand at www.parliamentlive.tv
