Healthy Living Centres (Hansard, 18 December 2003)

§ Chris Grayling
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the total funding being made available for Healthy Living centres is. [144564]

§ Miss Melanie Johnson
In total, £300 million was made available by the New Opportunities Fund for healthy living centres across the United Kingdom, of which £233 million was for England.
To date, 257 awards, worth £204 million, have been made in England.

§ Chris Grayling
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funding is being made available for Healthy Living centres with a focus on tackling obesity. [144567]

§ Miss Melanie Johnson
The information requested is as follows:
114 healthy living centres (167 in the United Kingdom) are providing activities covering diet and nutrition and 207 healthy living centres (282 in the UK) are offering physical and sporting activities, which contribute to tackling obesity and which support other significant preventive health objectives such as reducing the risk of cancer and type- two diabetes.