Mar. 28 2024
Source Page: General Medical Services Statement of Financial Entitlements Directions: previous directionsFound: vaccin es and immunisations), in the third row of the table in paragraph I.1.3 (immunisations for children
Mar. 28 2024
Source Page: General Medical Services Statement of Financial Entitlements Directions: previous directionsFound: for sub-paragraph (d) substitute— “(d) Meningococcal C conjugate vaccine or Hib/MenC vaccine (for children
Mar. 28 2024
Source Page: General Medical Services Statement of Financial Entitlements Directions: previous directionsFound: meningococcal B (infant) vaccination programme) insert — “Secti on 14F: MMR CATCH UP VACCINATION FOR CHILDREN
Asked by: Mary Glindon (Labour - North Tyneside)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to tackle childhood obesity; and if she will take steps to work with (a) other Departments and (b) community organisations to provide access to safe recreational spaces for children.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
Addressing obesity remains a priority for the Government and we are taking strong action to support people, including children and their families, in achieving and maintaining a healthier weight. This action includes: the introduction of restrictions on the promotion by location of less healthy products in key selling locations in store and online; working with the food industry to make further progress on reformulation and making healthier choices easier; the introduction of out of home calorie labelling regulations for food sold in large businesses, including restaurants, cafes, and takeaways; and supporting three million children through the Healthy Food Schemes.
The Government has taken steps towards providing access to open spaces for communities including children, this includes putting policies in place to require local authorities to provide access to open spaces for sport and physical activity, which is important for the health and well-being of communities. This includes a duty for all local councils to produce a design code for their local area. Design codes will be prepared locally, reflect the local context, and be based on effective community involvement. Officials in the Department are engaging with stakeholders, including those across Government, on a wide range of issues, to promote healthier places.
Mar. 27 2024
Source Page: Ultra-processed food (UPFs)Found: be divided into two broad sub -topics: those which drive overconsumption of calories, leading to obesity
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of trends in the level of obesity; and what steps her Department is taking to help tackle obesity.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Government is delivering a wide range of measures to reduce the numbers of both adults and children who are overweight, or living with obesity. To date this includes legislative measures to limit the advertising, and location and price promotion, of less healthy products, and to ensure calorie levels are provided on menus when eating out of the home. Impact assessments for the legislated measures suggest there will be substantial health benefits, as well as savings to the National Health Service, accrued.
We have seen important successes through the Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL), which between 2015 and 2020 has seen sugar levels reduced by 46% in, and over 46,000 tonnes of sugar removed from, products in scope of the levy. Data from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey from 2019 shows that sugar intakes have fallen for some age groups. In older children and adolescents, this appears to be partly driven by soft drinks contributing less to sugar intakes, likely as a result of the changes made to drinks included in the SDIL. Further information from the survey is available at the following link:
A paper on the association of obesity in primary school children and the SDIL suggests that the reduction in the sugar content of soft drinks delivered by the SDIL could have prevented up to 5,000 cases of obesity in girls in the last year of primary school. Reductions were greatest in girls who attended schools in the 40% of the most deprived areas. Further information from the paper is available at the following link:
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004160
The voluntary reformulation programme requires businesses reduce levels of sugar, salt, and calories in everyday food and drink. Levels of sugar have reduced in breakfast cereals, yogurts, and pre-packed milk-based drinks by 15%, 13.5%, and 29.7% respectively, between 2015 and 2020. Levels of salt have reduced in some products by 20%.
Oral Evidence Mar. 25 2024
Committee: Health and Social Care Committee (Department: Department of Health and Social Care)Found: The needs of, for example, children and young people in an in-patient setting will be different from
Oral Evidence Mar. 25 2024
Inquiry: Children, young people and the built environmentFound: However, there are real negative trends that we need to be concerned about, such as rising obesity,
Oral Evidence Mar. 25 2024
Inquiry: Food, Diet and ObesityFound: Food, Diet and Obesity Committee Uncorrected oral evidence: Food, diet and obesity Monday 25 March
Oral Evidence Mar. 25 2024
Inquiry: Food, Diet and ObesityFound: Food, Diet and Obesity Committee Uncorrected oral evidence: Food, diet and obesity Monday 25 March