Question follow-through · 35170
Physical Education and Sports: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to develop programmes promoting active lifestyles for children and young people as recommended in the article by Sarah MacQuarrie and Alexandra Hennessey entitled Transforming children and you
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 3 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 20 Mar 2025 · 17 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to develop programmes promoting active lifestyles for children and young people as recommended in the article by Sarah MacQuarrie and Alexandra Hennessey entitled Transforming children and you
5 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Mar 2025
Answer published
This government values physical education (PE) and sport as a way to improve not only the health, but the wellbeing and lives of all children and young people. Existing government-funded programmes look to address this with the primary PE and sport premiu...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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GCE A-level: Disadvantaged
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GCE A-level and T-levels: Disadvantaged
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