Obesity: Pendle

(asked on 22nd October 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) men and (b) women in Pendle constituency were classified as (i) overweight and (ii) obese in each of the last 10 years.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 29th October 2014

Data on adult obesity and excess weight (overweight and obese) for Pendle district are available from the ‘Local Health Profiles’ using data from the ‘Active People Survey’ commissioned by Sport England. The data are only available for 2012 and are presented as a total figure for males and females. This data is not collected by parliamentary constituency. The following data are for the area of Pendle district.

Excess weight defined as the proportion of the adult population who are overweight or obese for Pendle district in 2012 was 67.7% (England 63.8%).

The proportion of the adult population in Pendle district classified as obese in 2012 was 25.3% (England 23.0%).

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