Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published 31 March 2022, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Adult Weight Management Services Grant.

91% of local authorities in receipt of the Adult Weight Management Services Grant funding shared data on participants and their progress with the Office for Health and Disparities. Provisional data, covering the period April 2021 to December 2022, was published on 27 April 2023.

The statistical summary is available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/adult-tier-2-weight-management-services-provisional-data-for-april-2021-to-december-2022-experimental-statistics/adult-tier-2-weight-management-services-short-statistical-commentary-april-2023.

It shows that 40% of participants had lost weight by the end of their service, with 15% having lost at least 5% of their initial body weight. A final report will be published in due course.