Obesity: Children

(asked on 23rd February 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of childhood obesity levels in (a) Coventry North East constituency and (b) Coventry in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 1st March 2021

Data on child obesity is available from the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) at local authority, regional and England level. Data is not published by Parliamentary constituency.

The following table shows the prevalence of obesity levels in children aged four to five years old in Coventry.

Year

Number of children counted as obese

Obesity level

2019/20*

465

11.7%

2018/19

428

10.2%

2017/18

454

10.5%

2016/17

454

10.1%

2015/16

411

9.4%

Source: https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/national-child-measurement-programme

Note:

*96% of records were submitted compared to an average of the number measured in the previous three years

The following table shows the prevalence of obesity levels in children aged 10 to 11 years old in Coventry.

Year

Number of children counted as obese

Obesity level

2019/20

1015

25.3%

2018/19

967

22.6%

2017/18

956

23.5%

2016/17

928

24.2%

2015/16

848

23.1%

Source: https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/national-child-measurement-programme

Note:

*99% of records were submitted compared to an average of the number measured in the previous three years.

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