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Sports: Young People

Volume 472: debated on Wednesday 27 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) what percentage of (a) boys and (b) girls under the age of 16 met the physical activity recommendations of 60 minutes or more of activity of at least moderate intensity on all days of the week in each year for which figures are available; (189024)

(2) what percentage of (a) boys and (b) girls under the age of 16 undertook less than 30 minutes of physical activity per day in each year for which figures are available.

The information requested is not collected centrally. The National School Sport Survey measures the percentage of children aged five to 16 doing at least two hours of high quality PE and school sport each week. The 2006-07 survey shows that this currently stands at 86 per cent. Copies of the survey results have been placed in the Libraries of both Houses.