To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to his statement of 23 January 2008, Official Report, column 1499, on obesity, how healthy towns will be selected; and what process towns will have to follow to apply for designation as healthy towns. (182951)

The criteria and process for towns to apply for designation to become healthy towns are being developed by the Department of Health, Children, Schools and Families and Communities and Local Government, and will be announced in due course.