Obesity: Ashfield
(asked on 16th October 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children in Ashfield constituency were classed as (a) overweight and (b) obese in each of the last 10 years.
Data on childhood obesity are not collected by parliamentary constituency. The following data are for the area of Ashfield district. The National Childhood Measurement Programme (NCMP) data collection began in 2006/07 and only collects data on two age groups; reception year (4-5 years) and year 6 (10-11 years).
Reception Year (4-5 years) | Year 6 (10-11 years) | |||||||
Prevalence of obesity | Prevalence of overweight (including obese) | Prevalence of obesity | Prevalence of overweight (including obese) | |||||
Children | % | Children | % | Children | % | Children | % | |
2006/07 | 97 | 9.8 | 236 | 23.9 | 211 | 19.9 | 367 | 34.6 |
2007/08 | 99 | 9.7 | 258 | 25.3 | 218 | 19.0 | 381 | 33.2 |
2008/09 | 101 | 10.0 | 230 | 22.7 | 221 | 20.8 | 363 | 34.1 |
2009/10 | 98 | 8.8 | 263 | 23.7 | 208 | 18.2 | 389 | 34.0 |
2010/11 | 101 | 9.1 | 218 | 19.7 | 179 | 17.6 | 334 | 32.8 |
2011/12 | 94 | 8.1 | 227 | 19.6 | 190 | 18.4 | 335 | 32.4 |
2012/13 | 105 | 8.8 | 267 | 22.3 | 197 | 18.8 | 325 | 31.0 |
Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre, National Childhood Measurement Programme.