Obesity: Children

(asked on 16th September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of children under five years old who are obese in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
This question was answered on 1st October 2020

NHS Digital holds data on severe obesity in children in Reception by local authority for school years 2018-19 through the National Child Measurement Programme.

The latest report from the National Child Measurement Programme can be viewed at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/national-child-measurement-programme/2018-19-school-year

NHS Digital has advised that it does not hold any further information on the number of children under five years old who are obese or data for Coventry North East constituency.

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