Obesity: Children
(asked on 22nd February 2018) - View Source
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 Cornwall.
The prevalence of childhood obesity in Cornwall (including Isles of Scilly) for academic year 2016/17 for reception age children (aged four to five years) is 10.0%.
The prevalence of childhood obesity in Cornwall (including Isles of Scilly) for academic year 2016/17 for Year Six age children (aged 10-11 years) is 15.1%.
The data are publicly available on the Public Health England fingertips tool here:
Prevalence rates for childhood obesity for children at other ages are not collected in large enough samples to generate reliable county-level data.