Apr. 26 2024
Source Page: I. Supporting families: a foundation for family help. Annual report of the Supporting Families programme 2023-2024. Incl. annex. 25p. II. Local Data Accelerator Fund: process evaluation. Incl. appendices. 97p.Found: Mental health and obesity were selected as crosscutting priority issues. 5.3.15.
Written Evidence Apr. 25 2024
Inquiry: Devolution of employment supportFound: Over the next two decades, mental health and obesity are predicted to be key health issues facing
Written Evidence Apr. 25 2024
Inquiry: Devolution of employment supportFound: Obesity: The UK faces a growing obesity problem, driven by factors such as sedentary lifestyles,
Written Evidence Apr. 25 2024
Inquiry: Devolution of employment supportFound: Guardian 6 Health status - Infant mortality rates - OECD Data 7 RCPCH responds to latest childhood obesity
Mentions:
1: Navendu Mishra (Lab - Stockport) his point.Almost two thirds of adults are overweight or obese, and nearly four in 10 children with obesity - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) That is significant because one in four children with obesity are estimated to have fatty liver disease - Speech Link
3: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) It is an avoidable epidemic, which is being driven by obesity, alcohol and viral hepatitis. - Speech Link
4: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) This week, the Obesity journal published a study showing that almost 32,000 people achieved sustained - Speech Link
Asked by: Baroness Jenkin of Kennington (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government, following the Food Data Transparency Partnership’s decision not to make reporting on health data mandatory, what steps they are taking to ensure enforcement of and consistency in the voluntary scheme.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Food Data Transparency Partnership’s (FDTP) Health Working Group (HWG) has been testing the effectiveness and quality of potential standardised metrics that food and drink companies can use to report on the healthiness of their sales. This is an important part of government’s strategy to address poor diet and reduce obesity and was restated in the Major Conditions Strategy interim report August 2023.
Once a recommended set of metrics and reporting guidance has been produced and approved by Ministers, the expectation is that businesses who voluntarily report will all follow this standardised approach.
A key commitment of the HWG is timely and transparent communication so that wider food sector stakeholders can input into each stage of the process in order to ensure recommendations around comparability and enforcement will be as viable and effective as possible. Alongside engagement with industry, the FDTP also regularly engages civil society organisations and investor groups to gather and integrate wider feedback into discussions. Summaries of these HWG discussions are published online on the FDTP GOV.UK page.