Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 60288

Exercise

Tabled: 16 June 2025

Answered: 30 June 2025

Question

Mr Angus MacDonald

Liberal Democrat — Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate his Department has made of the proportion of deaths linked to physical inactivity in the UK.

Answer

Ashley Dalton

There are no official published statistics on deaths linked to physical inactivity in the United Kingdom.Statistics on deaths from specific causes are based on the medical causes of death recorded on a death certificate, which are coded using the Internat...

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