Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to use indicators of health other than Body Mass Index to inform public health (a) priorities, (b) decisions and (c) strategies.

One of the Government’s five missions is to build a National Health Service that is fit for the future. The Health Mission has an overall objective to reduce the amount of time spent in ill-health, tackle health inequalities, and drive economic growth.

As part of this, we’ll be taking ambitious steps to improve the nation’s health, so that we see improvement across a range of public health indicators, including obesity. Further details will be set out in due course.