Obesity: Children

(asked on 14th October 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children under the age of 16, were diagnosed as clinically obese in 2013.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 21st October 2014

Approximately 1.2 million children aged 2-15 were classified as obese using population monitoring thresholds in England in 2012.

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