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Obesity: Children

Volume 472: debated on Thursday 21 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many children aged 11 to 16 years were considered (a) obese and (b) overweight in each year since 1997; (185247)

(2) how many children under the age of 11 years were considered (a) obese and (b) overweight in each year since 1997.

The information is not available in the exact format requested.

Data on the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children aged two to 10 and aged 11 to 15 years, since 1995, can be found in the “Health Survey for England 2006 latest trends”, published 31 January 2008. The data are presented in table 4 (obesity) of the “Children’s trend tables 2006”. A copy of the report and tables has been placed in the Library.