Children: Obesity
(asked on 6th January 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the change has been in average levels of individual obesity of children between 2005 and 2010.
This question was answered on 11th January 2016
Data from the Health Survey for England shows that in 2005 18.6% of children aged 2-15 years were obese and 16.0% in 2010.
Table 1: Annual obesity prevalence for 2005 to 2010
Year | Obesity prevalence children aged 2-15 (%) |
2005 | 18.6 |
2006 | 16.3 |
2007 | 16.8 |
2008 | 16.0 |
2009 | 15.7 |
2010 | 16.0 |
Source: Health Survey for England