Obesity: Surgery
(asked on 23rd January 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of people under the age of 50 who have had weight loss surgery in the last five years.
This question was answered on 1st February 2023
Data from the Statistics on Obesity, Physical Activity and Diet (2021) shows the total number of individuals under 54 years old who have had a primary or secondary procedure of bariatric surgery is 15,394 between 2017/18 to 2019/20. Data for 2020/21 and 2021/22 will be published in due course.