Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will support the research into whether obesity should be classified as a disease including the possible consequences of such a classification on NHS commissioning and other services.
There are no current plans for the Department to classify obesity as a disease.
We will be launching the seven consultations announced in ‘Childhood obesity: a plan for action, chapter 2’ before the end of 2018. We will consider all responses to the consultations before setting out the next steps.
‘Childhood obesity: a plan for action, chapter 2’ is available at the following link:
www.gov.uk/government/publications/childhood-obesity-a-plan-for-action-chapter-2