§ Lord Moynihanasked Her Majesty's Government:
Further to the Written Answer by the Lord Warner on 29 March (WA 139), which sports organisations are involved with the local exercise action pilot schemes. [HL3486]
§ Lord Warner:At a national level the Department of Health is working in partnership and jointly funding the local exercise action pilot (LEAP) programme with Sport England, England's national sports development agency. The active involvement of local strategic partnerships, which include sport and leisure providers, is central to the LEAP model and there are examples across the 10 pilots of sport organisations working in partnership with the lead primary care trusts. For example, sports partnerships including national governing bodies, sport development teams, leisure services, private gyms and the voluntary sports sector are making a valuable contribution to the development of interventions such as National Health Service exercise referral schemes within a number of the pilots.
In addition, the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) has been closely involved in the development of the Plymouth free swimming pilot and the local ASA officer is supporting the work of Plymouth City Leisure Services and Plymouth PCT.
Two of the 10 pilots are also based in sport action zones.