Obesity: Children

(asked on 27th February 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has put in place a target for the national average rate of childhood obesity by the end of the current Parliament; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 4th March 2019

We have not set a target to reduce the national average rate of childhood obesity by the end of the current Parliament.

Chapter two of our world-leading childhood obesity plan, published in June 2018, sets a bold ambition to halve childhood obesity by 2030 and significantly reduce the gap in obesity between children from the most and least deprived areas by 2030. We have reiterated this ambition in our vision document ‘Prevention is better than cure’ published on 5 November 2018, and in the ‘NHS Long Term Plan’ published on 8 January 2019.

‘Childhood obesity: a plan for action, chapter 2’ is available at the following link:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/childhood-obesity-a-plan-for-action-chapter-2

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