Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the economic costs of obesity in the UK, following the report Unhealthy Numbers: The Rising Cost of Obesity in the UK by Frontier Economics published on 21 November.

In 2021, the annual economic cost of obesity in the United Kingdom was estimated to be £58 billion; this includes costs to the National Health Service, losses to the economy and reductions in the quality of life of people. The Department has not made a specific estimate following the report. This report’s estimate includes the cost of overweight as well as obesity.