Workers at sports quango admit being couch potatoes

STAFF at a government body responsible for promoting sport in Scotland have been criticised after it emerged that almost two-thirds of them failed to meet their own targets for ­exercise.

Sixty per cent of workers at Sportscotland admitted they did not take the minimum recommended amount of exercise of 30 minutes five times a week, while over 12 per cent owned up to barely or never exercising at all.

Sportscotland, which has its headquarters in Glasgow and employs 152 staff, boasts on its Twitter account that it provides “expertise to help Scotland to be a world-class sporting country.”

On its website, it declares: “Ultimately, we see a Scotland where sport is a way of life.”

Scottish Conservative health spokesman Jackson Carlaw said the sporting body needed to up its game in order to be taken seriously as a voice for healthy living.

He added: “It really needs to set an example to others of what is possible, not make tired excuses for under-performance.”