Health: Children

(asked on 13th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of children who are withdrawn from being weighed on the Healthy Child Programme; and what assessment he has made of the effect of those withdrawals on the accuracy of statistics published on children's weight.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 18th December 2017

There is no national data collection of weight recorded as part of the Healthy Child Programme, hence there are no national statistics published or data of those children withdrawn.

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