£30m pot for health
June 11th 2008
Health minister Ben Bradshaw will today open up the bidding for local authorities to submit applications for £30m of grants over the next 3 years to become a “healthy town”. Each town will be entitled to up to £5m in a drive to reduce obesity.
Health minister Ben Bradshaw said: “I want to see ideas which will tackle our weight problem.” Plans for the “healthy town” project include encouraging the creation of more cycle lanes, walk to work and school schemes and healthy food. Mr Bradshaw said of the obesity problem: “The core of the problem is simple – we eat too much and we do too little exercise. The solution is more complex.”
(Mirror, p25; Guardian, p13)
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