Dame Caroline Dinenage, MP for Gosport and chair of the Culture, Media, and Sport Parliamentary Select Committee, said the proposed 22 per cent reduction would undermine efforts to increase physical activity among children. Dame Caroline said: "Too many children are being denied the benefits of physical activity because PE is not being fully utilised in schools. READ MORE: School pupil's invention turned into prototype by Southampton students"Movement should be embedded into the school day but the government refuses to mandate two hours of PE a week. "These proposed cuts show that the government isn’t serious about getting children active." During a debate in June, Dame Caroline described a recent £1 billion school sports funding announcement as "smoke and mirrors."