Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of (a) children and (b) adults in (i) Wealden constituency, (ii) East Sussex and (iii) England were classified as (A) overweight and (B) obese in each of the last 10 years.

Child and adult overweight and obesity prevalence data are not published using parliamentary constituency boundaries, however the data is available for the corresponding local authority of Wealden.

Local authority level data on overweight and obese children are collected through the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP). The NCMP measures the height and weight of primary school children in Reception (age four-five years) and Year six (age 10-11 years). Data for each local authority, county, region and England are available to download from:

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB19109

and

http://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/national-child-measurement-programme

(The first link is the latest NCMP data, 2014/15. The second link includes counts and rates of children and trend data from 2006/07 to 2014/15).

Data on overweight and obese adults at a sub-national level are available through the active people survey and are published as pooled data for the period 2012-2014. The data for adults are from a sample survey (Active People Survey). The Active People Survey only began collecting data on adult height and weight in 2012, therefore local authority level data are not available before this date. Data for each local authority, county, region and England are available to download from:

http://www.noo.org.uk/visualisation

(the third article on the web page).