Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with (a) the BMA and (b) other medical bodies on the links between caesarean section births and obesity.

In the last six months, since 1 January 2015, Ministers at the Department of Health have not held any meetings with the British Medical Association (BMA) or other medical bodies to specifically discuss the links between caesarean section births and obesity.

However, Ministers meet regularly with a range of stakeholders to discuss a variety of public health and maternity issues.

In addition, a search of the Department’s Ministerial correspondence database has not identified any items of correspondence received since 1 January 2015 from the BMA or other medical bodies about the links between caesarean section births and obesity. This is a minimum figure which represents correspondence received by the Department’s Ministerial correspondence unit only.