Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what support and assistance they plan to offer obese people with a body mass index of 30 and above who have not been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes or hypertension.

Public Health England (PHE) has a responsibility to support the local delivery of evidence-based, effective and sustainable weight management services, as recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which support adults who are obese (that is, with a body mass index over 30 kg/m2, or lower for those from black and minority ethnic groups) or with other risk factors.

PHE provides practitioners, commissioners and providers of tier 2 weight management services with a range of resources to support the commissioning and delivery of these services. This includes:

- Guidance on how services should include diet, physical activity, and behaviour change components; and

- A tool to support the implementation of evidence-based behaviour change techniques.

A copy of this tool, Changing Behaviour: Techniques for Tier 2 Adult Weight Management Services, is attached.

NICE has also produced a guideline, Weight management: lifestyle services for overweight or obese adults, aimed at commissioners, health professionals, providers of lifestyle weight management programmes, adults who are overweight or obese, their families and other members of the public. This guideline covers lifestyle weight management services including programmes, courses, clubs or groups provided by the public, private and voluntary sector. The aim is to help people lose weight and become more physically active to reduce the risk of diseases associated with obesity. A copy of NICE’s guideline is attached.