It is absolutely right that school sports are adequately funded particularly given the positive impact physical activity can have on children’s health. As set out in its 10 Year Health Plan, DHSC is committed to supporting all people, including children and young people, to have fun and reap the physical and mental health benefits of movement. Supporting our children and young people to be more physically active is also an important part of the wider Government commitment to raise the healthiest generation of children. Physical activity is important throughout the lifecourse, though particularly throughout childhood to develop healthy hearts and minds and support maintenance of a healthier weight. This is why the department has provided funding and support to PE and Sport Premium and School Game Organisers Network for a number of years. The Government has now confirmed that it is investing over £1 billion in school sport over the next three years.4 DHSC has committed to provide a significant funding contribution as part of this, alongside funding from DfE and DCMS. This will fund: the new approach to school sports, the PE and School Sport Partnerships Network; improvements to school sports facilities; and support for primary schools as we move to the new approach. This funding commitment underlines the Government’s continued determination to improve access to PE, school sport and physical activity, especially for children who are least active and therefore have the most to gain, whilst managing wider pressures across primary prevention priorities. This funding complements DHSC’s wider action to raise the healthiest generation of children by implementing junk food advertising restrictions on TV and online, a move that we expect to remove up to 7.2 billion calories from UK children’s diets per year, and working with DfE to update the School Food Standards.