Question follow-through · 100738
Pensioners: Exercise
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to promote active and healthy lifestyles among pensioners, including through access to affordable physical activity and active travel.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 14 Jan 2026 · 29 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Health and care
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- NHS England: Workplace Pensions · 7 Jan 2026
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- Health Services: Children · 14 Jan 2026
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to promote active and healthy lifestyles among pensioners, including through access to affordable physical activity and active travel.
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Government recognises that reducing physical inactivity and promoting active, healthy lifestyles in people of all ages, including among pensioners, is important in helping people live longer, healthier lives, and is a key part of the Department’s shif...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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