PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Public Health: Bristol (14 July 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that long-term improvements to (a) walking, (b) cycling and (c) other public health programmes are a legacy of Bristol's year as European Green Capital.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

Significant investment continues to be made to the infrastructure, education and training needed to increase cycling and walking through programmes such as the Department for Transport’s Cycling Ambition Cities and National Parks Programme, the Department of Health’s investment in five English cities to deliver a range of interventions to support residents to build walking into their day to day lives, and Public Health England has also published ‘Everybody Active, Every Day’ to suggest ways to increase physical activity in local communities in England.

Local authorities have responsibility for the commissioning of health improvement services and it is for them to decide how best to meet local needs and priorities.

Answered by:
Jane Ellison (Conservative)
22 July 2015