Andrew Stephenson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Stephenson on 2014-06-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of how many adults in (a) East Lancashire, (b) Lancashire and (c) the North West exercised for at least 30 minutes a week during the most recent period for which figures are available.
Jane Ellison
The Department has made no such estimate. However, the Active People Survey commissioned by Sport England measures the proportion of adults (aged 16 and over) who undertake some form of physical activity at moderate intensity (or higher). Data from the most recent survey can be found in the following table.
Active People Survey (APS) data, 2012
Proportion of the adult population (age 16 years and over) participating in 30 or more equivalent minutes of moderate activity per week.
|
Area |
30+ minutes |
|
England |
71.5% |
|
North West Region |
68.8% |
|
Lancashire County |
69.6% |
|
Blackburn with Darwen UA |
63.1% |
|
Blackpool UA |
65.1% |
|
Burnley |
65.0% |
|
Chorley |
75.3% |
|
Fylde |
68.0% |
|
Hyndburn |
63.7% |
|
Lancaster |
74.4% |
|
Pendle |
66.1% |
|
Preston |
69.3% |
|
Ribble Valley |
74.1% |
|
Rossendale |
66.8% |
|
South Ribble |
69.5% |
|
West Lancashire |
73.3% |
|
Wyre |
65.6% |
Source: Active People Survey, Sport England
Notes:
- The data were collected between January 2012 to January 2013 (APS6 Quarter 2 to APS7 Quarter 1).
- The APS is commissioned by Sport England and measures the proportion of adults (aged 16 and over) participating in sport and/or undertaking some form of physical activity at moderate intensity (or higher).
- The survey uses a 28-day reference period to record the number of minutes of physical activity (of at least 10 minutes) and then divides the number of minutes by four to come up with a weekly average (e.g. two hours of physical activity over the 28 days equates to 30 minutes per week). Number of minutes presented is the equivalent minutes of moderate activity, which consists of moderate activity plus double the number of vigorous minutes of activity.
- The activities included in the APS are; sport, recreational cycling and walking, walking and cycling for active travel purposes, dance and gardening.
- The percentages are weighted to adjust the results so that they are representative of the whole population at local authority, regional and national level.
- Further information and data are available at these websites:
www.noo.org.uk/data_sources/physical_activity/activepeople
www.sportengland.org/research/active_people_survey.aspx
