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SPICe briefings
Date published:
3 May 2024
Sport in Scotland: An Overview of Legislation, Governance, Policy and Funding - Community Sport and Healthy Ageing
A number of factors have profound impacts on life expectancy, one of which is physical activity. Community sport has the potential to improve physical activity participation trends in older age groups.
Committee reports
Date published:
9 October 2023
Female participation in sport and physical activity - Focus on competition rather than having fun
After all, if people do not find sport fun, they will not come back to it, they will not remain active and they will then see themselves as having been othered or will be inactive, possibly for life, because they will not see themselves as being welcome in that space.Health, Social Care and Sport Committee, Official Report, 28 March 2023
The Committee recognises that, while some girls and women may actively welcome a strong element of competition to their participation in sport and physical activity, many will want to focus on enjoyment.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
3 May 2024
Sport in Scotland: An Overview of Legislation, Governance, Policy and Funding - Scottish Government - A More Active Scotland
Scottish Government - A More Active Scotland
Scotland's Physical Activity Delivery Plan – A More Active Scotland – outlines the vision of:
A Scotland where more people are more active, more often.
Last updated:
20 December 2023
Scottish labour market
In this section we will look inactivity rates by sex and age to get an idea where the differences are in Scotland.
Committee reports
Date published:
29 March 2018
Report on petition PE1463: Effective thyroid and adrenal testing, diagnosis and treatment (revised on 20 July 2018 to update glossary) - Introduction
It is about the hormone that comes from the thyroid gland that becomes inactive…the condition we are talking about today [is] a conversion failure of the inactive T4 thyroid hormone to cross over into the active T3 hormone.iPublic Petitions Committee.
Last updated:
20 December 2023
Summary of responses to the call for views
In terms of long-term sickness, there are around 1000 fewer people economically inactive for this reason. So it would seem based on the data that economic activity and long-term sickness have both reduced in Stirling and across Scotland since the beginning of the pandemic.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
10 January 2025
Getting the inactive active: Barriers to physical activity and their potential policy solutions - Review aims and objectives
A case for ‘Collective Physical Activity’: moving towards post-capitalist futures.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
10 January 2025
Getting the inactive active: Barriers to physical activity and their potential policy solutions - Poverty and economic inequality
Further to this, 57% of people in the most deprived areas of Scotland meet the recommendations for MVPA with 31% having very low activity. When looking at the least deprived areas, 73% of people are meeting the recommendations and only 13% have very low activity1Scottish Government. (2022, November 8).
Committee reports
Date published:
27 November 2017
Sport for Everyone - jogscotland
This programme successfully encouraging a cohort of inactive people to become more active and at the same time helped reduce health inequalities by encouraging more women to participate in physical activity.
Official Report
Meeting date:
14 December 2022
Economy and Fair Work Committee 14 December 2022
In May 2007, the inactivity rate in Scotland was 21.4 per cent, and the activity levels for October 2022 is 21.4 per cent.
