Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) children and (b) adults in (i) Copeland constituency, (ii) Cumbria and (iii) England are classed as (A) overweight, (B) obese and (C) morbidly obese in each of the last 10 years.

Child and adult overweight and obesity prevalence are not published using parliamentary constituency boundaries. Data is available for the local authorities of Copeland District Council and Cumbria County Council.

Local authority level data on overweight and obese children are collected through the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP). Subnational and national data are available to download from http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB19109 and http://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/national-child-measurement-programme (Link 1: latest NCMP data, 2014/15, Link 2: trend data from 2006/07 to 2014/15).

Sub-national data on overweight and obese adults are available through the Active People Survey. Data collection on adult height and weight started in 2012, local authority data are not available before this. Subnational and national data are available to download from:

http://www.noo.org.uk/visualisation

There is no published data at local authority level on morbid obesity in adults or children. National prevalence of adult morbid obesity (Body Mass Index > 40kg.m²) is available from the Health Survey for England (1993 to 2014):

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB19297