Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of the 17 November 2020 to Question 112091 on Obesity, whether the views of (a) people with obesity (b) obesity patient organisations and (c) professional associations for healthcare professionals with a focus on obesity were considered by his Department during its development of plans for implementing the obesity strategy.

We have been careful to consider the views of wide range of stakeholders including individuals, professional bodies and experts from across the United Kingdom as we developed our plans for implementing the healthy weight strategy including in response to specific policy proposals.

Officials in the Department are in regular contact with their counterparts in the devolved administrations on United Kingdom-wide measures in our strategy, such as front of pack nutrition labelling on food and drink.