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Last updated:
16 May 2024
CPG on Sport minutes 141223
The Get Out Get Active (GOGA) Tayside showcases partnership working with health bodies and embeds interventions to help get the inactive active.
Last updated:
14 April 2025
PE2018_N
The predicted annual cost for treating non-communicable diseases attributable to physical inactivity globally is US$27 billion (Bull et al., 2022).
Committee reports
Date published:
1 February 2019
Stage 1 Report on the Human Tissue (Authorisation) (Scotland) Bill - Gift element
Although the Government’s aim to save lives is laudable, it must not take advantage of people’s inaction. That is unethical.The Christian Institute, written submission
Dr Macdonald from CARE for Scotland highlighted what he saw as an unintended consequence of deemed authorisation – a potential increase in the number of people actively choosing to opt-out of the system.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
10 January 2025
Getting the inactive active: Barriers to physical activity and their potential policy solutions - Devolved powers available to support physical activity provision in Scotland
Devolved powers available to support physical activity provision in Scotland
Whilst significant challenges exist in addressing such issues in the 25 years since devolution, the powers available to the Scottish Government have gradually increased.
Last updated:
21 September 2023
Fedcap Scotland Additional Evidence
We have also recently launched a pilot project in Fife to provide more in-depth analysis and insight into how to engage with and motivate economically inactive individuals in the community. 1 Last week’s report by the Office for Budget Responsibility laid bare the scale of the challenge of economic inactivity and how it has been driven by the rise of long-term sickness/health related inactivity since the start of the pandemic.
Committee reports
Date published:
28 September 2022
Tackling health inequalities in Scotland - Scottish Government strategy and action
A lot of cross-ministerial dialogue was involved to get to that point—probably more than should be needed, but it was necessary in order to get across all those compartments.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
30 December 2024
S6W-32461
This is available at: Economic inactivity in Scotland: supporting those with longer-term health conditions and disabilities to remain economically active.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
26 July 2024
Economic inactivity and ill health in Scotland - Key findings and implications
This relationship holds true particularly among the inactive population. That is, those who are inactive are more likely to attribute their inactivity to poor health or disability when they have faced reduced access to public healthcare in the year prior.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
26 July 2024
Economic inactivity and ill health in Scotland - UK and Scottish inactivity
UK and Scottish inactivity
Concerns about the effects of the pandemic on the UK labour market have focused on rising economic inactivity.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
12 December 2018
Labour market update: December 2018 - Economic inactivity by gender
Economic inactivity by gender
Economic inactivity rates are higher for women than for men.
