Obesity

(asked on 19th April 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the rate of adult obesity has declined in England since 2012.


Answered by
Maggie Throup Portrait
Maggie Throup
This question was answered on 22nd April 2022

Data from the Health Survey for England (HSE) shows that obesity prevalence in adults in England has increased from 24.7% in 2012 to 28.0% in 2019, the latest data available.

Data for local authorities is not held in the format requested as this records combined overweight and obese categories. However, the latest data available from the Active Lives Adult Survey shows that the proportion of adults classified as overweight or living with obesity statistically significantly increased between 2015/16 and 2019/20 in 17 of 148 upper tier local authorities. No local authorities had statistically significant decreases.

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