Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2023 to Question 190974 on Prescription Drugs: Side Effects, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of conducting an assessment of the potential impact of prescribed medications that have a known side-effect of weight gain on trends in the level of (a) adult and (b) child obesity.

No specific assessment has been made.