The benefits of sport and physical activity—improved health, stronger communities, reduced inequalities, and enhanced educational and economic outcomes—span multiple departments, yet responsibility for delivering them remains disconnected. Without a unifying national framework to align funding, planning, education, health policy and community provision, these gains will continue to be fragmented and under‑ realised. The question is no longer whether the Government recognises 58 the benefits of school and community sport in principle, but whether it is willing to act on them with the urgency and ambition the evidence demands. (Conclusion, Paragraph 146)