Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the childhood obesity rate is in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England.

NHS Digital has published data on child obesity at local authority, region and England level as part of the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP). Data is not published by Parliamentary constituency.

The NCMP collects data on children aged four to five years (Reception) and 10-11 years (Year 6). For children aged four to five years the prevalence of obesity in 2019/20 was 11.7% in Coventry, 11.2% in West Midlands and 9.9% in England. For children aged 10-11 years the prevalence of obesity in 2019/20 was 25.5% in Coventry, 23.9% in West Midlands and 21.0% in England.