Obesity: Children

(asked on 26th February 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Inter-Ministerial Group for Healthy Living plans to assess the correlation between obesity in children and poverty.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 6th March 2018

The Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) on Healthy Living will explore ways of promoting healthy living for all, to help reduce inequalities in health. The IMG will meet for the first time in early 2018 and will determine its future work plan in due course.

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