Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Work and Pensions

Mar. 25 2024

Source Page: Digital skills, channel preference, and access needs: Personal Independence Payment customers
Document: Digital skills, channel preference, and access needs: Personal Independence Payment customers (PDF)

Found: likely used by students (11%) and those living with ‘other’ health conditions or disabilities like obesity

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Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Work and Pensions

Mar. 25 2024

Source Page: Digital skills, channel preferences and access needs: DWP customers
Document: Digital skills, channel preferences and access needs: DWP customers (PDF)

Found: Allowance (AA), Bereavement Support Payment (BSP), Carers Allowance (CA), Disability Living Allowance for Children

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Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Department for Education

Mar. 23 2024

Source Page: PE and sports in schools
Document: Enhancing physical education provision and improving access to sport and physical activity in school (PDF)

Found: The data for the 2022 /23 academic year4 showed that 47% of children and young people are meeting the

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Commons Chamber
Greater London Low Emission Zone Charging (Amendment) Bill - Fri 22 Mar 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) It leads to children growing up with stunted lungs, and contributes to people developing serious health - Speech Link
2: Lilian Greenwood (Lab - Nottingham South) increase in active travel could make a difference not just to air quality policies but to tackling obesity - Speech Link
3: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) Rolling that back would mean worse air for those 5 million people and 87,000 children. - Speech Link
4: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) So many children in the schools I visit are now affected. - Speech Link
5: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) Air pollution is like a ticking timebomb for our children. - Speech Link

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Select Committee

University of Liverpool, City University, and Bartle Bogle Hegarty

Oral Evidence Mar. 21 2024

Inquiry: Food, Diet and Obesity
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Food, Diet and Obesity Committee

Found: Food, Diet and Obesity Committee Uncorrected oral evidence: Food, diet and obesity Thursday 21 March

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Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Department for Work and Pensions

Mar. 21 2024

Source Page: Flagship youth employment programme hits one million milestone
Document: review (PDF)

Found: immigrants, ethnic minorities, older workers an d to some extent women, especially those with young children

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Commons Chamber
Food Security - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Robert Goodwill (Con - Scarborough and Whitby) food poverty, extending free school meal provision, and the junk food cycle that contributes to rising obesity - Speech Link
2: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) That same data tells us that, between 2010 and last year, 19% of children lived in households with either - Speech Link

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Written Question

Health: Children

Thursday 21st March 2024

Asked by: Christopher Chope (Conservative - Christchurch)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will (a) publish average weight to height ratios for children in England and (b) provide advice on any health implications for those who have a ratio significantly larger or smaller than the average.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) collects data on the height and weight status of children aged four to five years old, who are in Reception, and 10 to 11 years old, who are in Year six. The data collected and published by NHS England is expressed as a Body Mass Index (BMI) centile, to estimate child overweight and obesity. Data on average weight to height ratios for children in England is not available. The Department does not plan to publish data on average weight to height ratios, or average waist to height ratios for children in England. Waist measurements are not collected as part of the NCMP.

The clinical guidance from the National Institute of Health and Care Research recommends that a waist to height ratio measurement is considered alongside a child’s BMI centile in individual clinical assessments, to give a practical estimate of central adiposity. If a child falls into an unhealthy weight category, a waist to height ratio will give additional health information in clinical settings. This includes helping to assess and predict individual health risks such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, or cardiovascular disease, as the location of where children carry weight on their bodies has an influence on their health.

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