Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many children in Pendle constituency were classified as (a) overweight and (b) obese in each year since 2006-07.
Data on childhood obesity are not collected by parliamentary constituency. The following data are for the area of Pendle district. The National Childhood Measurement Programme (NCMP) data collection began in 2006-07 and only collects data on two age groups; reception year (4-5 years) and year 6 (10-11 years).
Reception Year (4-5 years) | Year 6 (10-11 years) | |||||||
| Prevalence of obesity | Prevalence of overweight (including obese) | Prevalence of obesity | Prevalence of overweight (including obese) | ||||
| Children | % | Children | % | Children | % | Children | % |
2006-07 | 94 | 10.84 | 191 | 22.03 | 50 | 13.59 | 99 | 26.9 |
2007-08 | 89 | 10.06 | 193 | 21.81 | 152 | 18.36 | 251 | 30.31 |
2008-09 | 82 | 7.98 | 219 | 21.32 | 159 | 16.31 | 279 | 28.62 |
2009-10 | 102 | 9.51 | 253 | 23.58 | 175 | 17.82 | 307 | 31.26 |
2010-11 | 106 | 9.84 | 256 | 23.77 | 163 | 17.25 | 291 | 30.79 |
2011-12 | 115 | 10.48 | 271 | 24.7 | 192 | 19.12 | 352 | 35.06 |
2012-13 | 151 | 12.46 | 313 | 25.83 | 188 | 19.54 | 339 | 35.24 |
Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre, National Childhood Measurement Programme.