Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what prior assessment his Department made of the implications for its policies on tackling obesity of its decision to suspend £100 million of funding for local authority and NHS commissioned weight management services.

The decision to reprioritise funding for healthy weight activities was taken following consideration of options to meet the ongoing financial challenges of COVID-19 within existing budgets.

On 6 April 2022, new Regulations on out of home calorie labelling came into force and new legislation on restricting the promotion and advertising of unhealthy food and drink will be implemented in due course.