Question follow-through · 53808
Exercise: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to (a) support and (b) expand community-based physical activity programmes specifically designed for older people.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 20 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 May 2025
- Answer
- 27 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to (a) support and (b) expand community-based physical activity programmes specifically designed for older people.
22 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 May 2025
Answer published
The Government and the National Health Service recognise that prevention will always be better and cheaper than a cure. Reducing physical inactivity in people of all ages, including in older people, is important in helping people live longer, healthier li...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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