Obesity: Children
(asked on 19th October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the measurement for assessing whether a child aged between two and 15 years is classified as obese has changed in the last 10 years.
This question was answered on 24th October 2018
Body Mass Index thresholds for defining underweight, overweight and obesity in children aged 2-18 years have not changed since they were originally introduced in the 1990s.