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.
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.