Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care of 25 June 2018, Official Report, column 633, on the Childhood Obesity Strategy: Chapter 2, what the timelines are for (a) developing and (b) publishing chapter 3 of that strategy.

We will measure progress towards our ambition to halve childhood obesity by 2030 annually through the National Child Measurement Programme and Health Survey for England. We know achieving this will not be easy, but it is a measure of our ambition and resolve to tackle this issue.

We remain committed to reviewing what more can be done to make sure we meet our ambition of halving childhood obesity and will continue to monitor progress and emerging evidence carefully. Where progress is not being delivered, we will consider what further action can be taken to help us to achieve what no other country in the world has yet achieved: success in tackling childhood obesity.