Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) men and (b) women in Ashfield constituency were classed as (i) overweight and (ii) obese in each of the last 10 years.

Data on adult obesity and excess weight (overweight and obese) for Ashfield district are available from the ‘Local Health Profiles’ using data from the ‘Active People Survey’ commissioned by Sport England. The data are only available for 2012 and data on adult obesity is not collected by parliamentary constituency. The following data are for the area of Ashfield district. Trend data at this geography are not available.

Excess weight defined as the proportion of the adult population who are overweight or obese for Ashfield district in 2012, was 69.6%. (The rate for England of is 63.8%.)

The proportion of the adult population in Ashfield district classified as obese in 2012 was 28.2%. (The rate for England of is 23.0%.)

This data is not available in a gender-specific format.