Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2019 to Question 213342, for what reasons his Department has no plans to extend the National Child Measurement Programme to measure children (a) after birth, (b) before school and (c) during adolescence.
The inclusion of additional data points in the National Child Measurement Programme would provide minimal insight but would substantially increase the delivery costs of the programme for local authorities.