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Public Health Responsibility Deal

What we eat, how much we drink and how active we are is heavily shaped by our environment.  Creating the right environment can encourage and empower people to take responsibility for their health and make healthy choices.

Launched on 15 March, the Public Health Responsibility Deal has been established to tap into the potential for businesses and other organisations to improve public health and tackle health inequalities through their influence over food, alcohol, physical activity and health in the workplace.

Partners and their pledges

Partners signing up to the Responsibility Deal have committed to take action to improve public health.  This action is expressed as a series of pledges covering food, alcohol, physical activity and health at work.  These pledges are not intended to replace Government action.  The Government will continue to develop national policy, define priorities and communicate public health messages.

Online registry of partners and their pledges can be located below

Interested in becoming a Responsibility Deal partner? Please see Becoming a Responsibility Deal Partner via the left hand menu

If you would like to suggest new pledges related to  food, alcohol, physical activity and health at work where you would like to see collective action please email:

The structure of the Responsibility Deal

The Responsibility Deal is made up of core commitments and supporting pledges which define the scope, purpose and high-level ambitions of the Deal, along with its operating principles and processes.  While the collective and individual pledges set out the specific actions that partners will take to support delivery of the core commitments

Organisations working together

A Plenary Group chaired by the Secretary of State oversees the development of the Responsibility Deal, further information can be found via the link titled Plenary group

Five networks, on food, alcohol, physical activity, health at work and behaviour change, have been established to develop pledges for action.  More information is located via Responsibility Deal Networks

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