House of Lords Podcast: Lord Speaker's Corner
Dec 17, 2021 · 1 hr 6 min · 11 segments
What is needed to make England a healthier nation? And why are two committees concerned about government use of secondary legislation? Find out in this month's House of Lords Podcast. ## What is…
David MacleanGuest
Robin HodgsonGuestPhil WillisGuest
Karren BradyGuestAmyHost
Michael ForsythHostWell, welcome this afternoon.
Thank you for joining us.
Can I start? Lord Willis is chair of the Lord's Sport and Recreation Committee.
Can you tell us why we need a plan for sport, health and well-being right now?
And the fact that we have spent billions of pounds over the past couple of decades, including the Olympics, to try to ensure that people became fitter became more active we've flatlined the pandemic has also demonstrated to us that roughly two out of three people do less than a half hour of activity every week and in terms of developing your physical health and your mental health quite frankly that's just unacceptable
what are the sort of risks if we if we don't act right now
We know that in terms of a nation, we have some of the greatest sporting leagues in the world.
If you take the Premier League, without doubt, the premier sporting league in the world.
We do in terms of Formula One, you know, through to women's soccer, through to netball, through to disability sports and Paralympics and Olympics.
And whilst they are excelling, the vast majority who are going to our schools, obviously as young children, who are going into our youth clubs and our sports clubs, and indeed those who are doing nothing at all, are flatlining, and the result of which is is that we are seeing a more obese nation, a less active nation, an unhealthy nation, and the cost on the NHS of all that is absolutely enormous.
And we're trying to reverse that and just simply say, we're not asking for billions of pounds, we're asking basically for you to reorganise the money that is spent and to focus it where it is best needed, at grass roots.
You obviously both spoken to lots of different organisations and individuals during the inquiry.
Was there anything that was particularly surprising to you in the evidence that you heard?
Well, I think one of the things that I thought was quite interesting was we worked with FYI, which is a Sky Television programme aimed specifically for young people.
And 75% said they relied on schools for their sport and felt that they didn't do enough sport and would like to do more, but didn't have a way of doing it.
We found that quite a sort of mixture of both deeply depressing and helped us focus more on what schools should be doing and making sport a core subject alongside maths and English.
Well, welcome this afternoon.
Thank you for joining us.
Can I start? Lord Willis is chair of the Lord's Sport and Recreation Committee.
Can you tell us why we need a plan for sport, health and well-being right now?
And the fact that we have spent billions of pounds over the past couple of decades, including the Olympics, to try to ensure that people became fitter became more active we've flatlined the pandemic has also demonstrated to us that roughly two out of three people do less than a half hour of activity every week and in terms of developing your physical health and your mental health quite frankly that's just unacceptable
what are the sort of risks if we if we don't act right now
We know that in terms of a nation, we have some of the greatest sporting leagues in the world.
If you take the Premier League, without doubt, the premier sporting league in the world.
We do in terms of Formula One, you know, through to women's soccer, through to netball, through to disability sports and Paralympics and Olympics.
And whilst they are excelling, the vast majority who are going to our schools, obviously as young children, who are going into our youth clubs and our sports clubs, and indeed those who are doing nothing at all, are flatlining, and the result of which is is that we are seeing a more obese nation, a less active nation, an unhealthy nation, and the cost on the NHS of all that is absolutely enormous.
And we're trying to reverse that and just simply say, we're not asking for billions of pounds, we're asking basically for you to reorganise the money that is spent and to focus it where it is best needed, at grass roots.
You obviously both spoken to lots of different organisations and individuals during the inquiry.
Was there anything that was particularly surprising to you in the evidence that you heard?
Well, I think one of the things that I thought was quite interesting was we worked with FYI, which is a Sky Television programme aimed specifically for young people.
And 75% said they relied on schools for their sport and felt that they didn't do enough sport and would like to do more, but didn't have a way of doing it.
We found that quite a sort of mixture of both deeply depressing and helped us focus more on what schools should be doing and making sport a core subject alongside maths and English.
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