Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department plans to provide to the proposed new Integrated Care Systems to increase access to tier 3 weight management services.

The proposed Health and Care Bill will establish statutory integrated care systems (ICS), made up of an integrated care board and integrated care partnership, together referred to as the ICS. The integrated care board will take on the commissioning functions of the clinical commissioning group, including those that relate to tier 3 weight management services.

The NHS Long Term Plan and the ‘Tackling Obesity’ strategy have a number of different actions to support the drive to reduce obesity, including investment in tier 3 services for children and adults and plans are in development for this expansion.