The House of Lords Committee on Sport and Recreation will this
week hold the final evidence session of its inquiry.
The Committee will wrap up by taking evidence
from:
-
, Minister for Sport and Tourism at the
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
-
MP, Minister for School Standards at the Department
for Education
-
, Minister for Prevention, Public Health and
Primary Care at the Department for Health and Social
Care.
The Ministers represent three key Government departments with
responsibility for ensuring the public become more active and are
able access opportunities to take part in sport and active
recreation.
Issues the session will cover include:
- The Government’s response to the weight of evidence the
Committee have received suggesting sport policy across the
country is fragmented and uncoordinated.
- Whether Local Authorities are overlooked in the strategic
planning of sport and recreation policy and how they can have a
bigger role.
- How PE in schools can be improved to engage more young people
including a possible focus on physical literacy and better PE
training for primary school teachers.
- What more the Government can do to open school sports
facilities up to community and grassroots sports clubs.
- How the Office of Health Promotion will impact sport and
recreation policy and whether it will get the same priority and
resources as other forms of health intervention.
- How sport can be prioritised in the UK’s post COVID-19
recovery plans.
