HL Deb 21 December 2004 vol 667 cc141-2WA
Lord Moynihan

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What progress has been made on the cross-government Activity Co-ordination Team; when it was established, what its costs are to date; and what it has achieved. [HL416]

Regulations 2003 and the Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (England) Regulations 2004 are detailed below.

Lord McIntosh of Haringey

The Activity Co-ordination Team (ACT) was established in July 2003 to co-ordinate government action on measures to increase participation levels in sport and physical activity. It has made significant progress.

Cross-government physical activity measures agreed via ACT formed a specific element of the public health consultation in the summer and were contained in a separate Choosing Health? Choosing Activity consultation document. Responses to that and the wider consultation enabled ACT to inform the new physical activity commitments set out in Choosing Health Making Healthier Choices Easier published last month, including the commitment to publish a physical activity plan.

ACT is not a funding body and its incidental secretarial and meeting costs are met from within the departmental running costs of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department of Health and are not identified separately.