Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his policy is on implementation of Chapter 2 of the Government's childhood obesity plan.

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