Department Of Health Legacy Action Plan

7th June 2010

The Legacy Action Plan (LAP), 'Before, during and after: making the most of the 2012 Games', published in June 2008, set a new cross-government target to get two million more adults physically active by 2012.

The objective of the LAP target is to increase by two million the number of adults doing three or more sessions (at least 30 minutes per session) of at least moderate intensity activity per week. The target encompasses sport and everyday physical activity such as walking, cycling, gardening, active conservation and dance.

Sport England's Active People Survey has been adopted as the most appropriate survey tool for monitoring the target. Therefore, the Department of Health has funded Sport England and Ipsos MORI to extend the coverage of the Active People Survey to include additional domains of physical activity: dance, gardening, active conservation and active travel, from January 2009. Some people will achieve their 3x30 minutes through 'pure sport', some through 'pure physical activity' and some through a combination of the two.

This sport and physical activity related data forms the basis of the cross-government baseline against which the target of getting two million more adults more active will be measured >>more