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I asked local authorities to look at how they can use the opportunity of the fund to get additional infrastructure in place and provide facilities to support people to use active travel options, whether they are moving around for their daily exercise or to commute to work.
Although the pandemic delayed things by a year, it was an incredible achievement to get that rolled out. Around 97 per cent of children get 600-plus hours and 87 per cent get the whole 1,140 hours.
A local issue that we have is a real backlog in cath lab activity. We have an opportunity to increase that capacity, which would get the flow moving through cardiology much better, and a targeted bit of work on that is under way.
With regard to awareness, FSS and the FSA are looking, as one of their activity streams, at increasing the surveillance activity that we call horizon scanning.
I want to hear those voices, because they will continue to tell us where we are getting it right, where we are getting it wrong and where we need to go further.
I have two specific questions about the way it ought to be resourced. One is about who gets to direct and organise the activity and who is responsible for financing it.