Obesity: Health Services

(asked on 10th May 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the suspension of the £100 million of funding for weight management services, announced on 4 March 2022, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of that suspension on other weight management services run by local authorities that were already established prior to the announcement of extra funding in 2021.


Answered by
Maggie Throup Portrait
Maggie Throup
This question was answered on 17th May 2022

The Adult Weight Management Services Grant distributed for use in 2021/22 was in addition to local authorities’ existing expenditure on adult tier 2 behavioural weight management services from the Public Health Grant. This funding must be used to commission new or expand existing services and was not intended to replace other funding. In 2022/23, the total Public Health Grant to local authorities is £3.417 billion. Decisions on how the Public Health Grant is spent are made by individual local authorities.

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