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 8 May 2019 to Question 249880, which local authorities have received funding to deliver the trailblazer programme.

The local authorities that have gone through to the discovery phase of the Trailblazer Programme and received funding are:

- Bath and North East Somerset Council;

- Birmingham City Council;

- Blackburn with Darwen Council;

- City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council;

- London Borough of Havering;

- London Borough of Lewisham;

- Middlesbrough Council;

- North Tyneside Council;

- North Yorkshire County Council;

- Nottinghamshire County Council;

- Peterborough City Council;

- Rochdale Borough Council; and

- Walsall Council.

The next phase of the Trailblazer Programme begins early this summer when five authorities will be selected from this list to take forward their plans to address childhood obesity at local level over the next three years.