Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential role hydration may play in tackling obesity.

There has been no specific assessment. Government advice on a healthy, balanced diet is encapsulated in the United Kingdom’s national food model, the Eatwell Guide. This recommends that people should aim to drink six to eight cups or glasses of fluid a day.