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, what the childhood obesity rate is in Coventry.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 1st March 2018

The prevalence of obesity for children in reception (aged 4-5) for the academic period 2016/17 in the local authority area of Coventry is 10.1%.

The prevalence of obesity for children in year 6 (aged 10-11) for the academic period 2016/17 in the local authority area of Coventry is 24.2%.

The data is publicly available here:

https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/national-child-measurement-programme/data#page/0/gid/8000011/pat/6/par/E12000005/ati/102/are/E08000026

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