To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of musculoskeletal hubs in local communities.

The Government announced measures to address economic inactivity, as part of the 2023 Spring Budget. This included £12 million over a period of four years, from April 2024, to scale up Musculoskeletal (MSK) Physical Activity Hubs in the Community.

The MSK Physical Activity Hubs in the Community project will seek to build on local practice and explore how to enable people with MSK conditions to access supportive physical activity interventions within local leisure and other community settings. This will also explore how to build in vocational support. We are currently engaging with stakeholders to expand our understanding of existing practice, and inform our approach to this project.