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 2 November 2021 to Question HL3390 on Obesity: Surgery, what specific metrics will be recorded in the proposed National Obesity Audit.

NHS England and NHS Improvement have advised that data for the National Obesity Audit (NOA) will be collected through routine data collections including Hospital Episode Statistics and the Community Services Dataset. General practice data for planning and research will be subject to approval once the collection commences.

The NOA will collect metrics which facilitate the audit to answer its seven questions and to achieve its stated aims of improving access and outcomes from weight management services. The NOA questions are as follows:

- What proportion of people and which population groups living with overweight and obesity are being identified and recorded;

- What proportion of people living with overweight and obesity have been offered appropriate NICE recommended interventions;

- Which people with living with overweight and obesity access weight management services;

- What are the short and long term weight loss outcomes of weight management services;

- Do people living with overweight and obesity transition successfully between the different types of weight management services available and from children’s to adult services;

- What are the health outcomes for people living with overweight and obesity; and

- What is the coverage and provision of weight management services.