Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the obesity rate is in Lancashire.

Obesity is commonly presented as prevalence. The most recent data available from the Active People Survey shows that between 2012 and 2014 24.0% of adults in Lancashire were obese. This is the same as the average for England.

Data from the National Child Measurement Programme show that for the academic year 2014/15 in Lancashire 9.4% of children in Reception aged 4-5 years were obese; similar to the English average (9.1%). For children aged 10-11 year in Year 6, 18.4% were obese; similar to the value for England (19.1%). Data for 2015/16 is not available.