Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to tackle obesity in (a) the North East and (b) England.

We launched Childhood Obesity: A Plan for Action on 18 August. A copy of the plan is attached and is available at:

www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/546588/Childhood_obesity_2016__2__acc.pdf