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Obesity: Children

Volume 492: debated on Friday 8 May 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to his Department's report Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: One Year On, which 122 local authorities selected (a) one and (b) both of the child obesity indicators in their local area agreements. (273807)

Updated information on the number of local areas that have selected either one or both of the child obesity indicators in their local area agreements is provided in the following lists.

National Indicator 55: Obesity among primary school age children in reception year

Bristol

Croydon

Havering

Hounslow1

Isle of Wight

Kensington and Chelsea1

Kent

Lambeth

Lancashire

Lewisham

Merton

North East Lincolnshire

North Lincolnshire

Nottinghamshire

Portsmouth

Redcar and Cleveland

Rochdale

Salford1

Shropshire

South Gloucestershire

St. Helens

Sutton

Tameside

Wakefield

Westminster

Wiltshire

Wirral

1 Indicates an area with both National Indicators.

National Indicator 56: Obesity among primary school age children in year 6:

Barnet

Barnsley

Bedford

Birmingham

Blackpool

Bournemouth

Bracknell Forest

Brent

Brighton and Hove

Buckinghamshire

Calderdale

Cambridgeshire

Camden

Central Bedfordshire

Cheshire East

Cheshire West and Chester

Coventry

Darlington

Derbyshire

Devon

Doncaster

Dorset

Dudley

Durham

East Riding of Yorkshire

Enfield

Essex

Gateshead

Greenwich

Hackney

Halton

Hammersmith and Fulham

Hampshire

Haringey

Herefordshire

Hertfordshire

Hounslow

Islington

Kensington and Chelsea

Kingston upon Thames

Kirklees

Knowsley

Leicester

Leicestershire

Lincolnshire

Liverpool

Luton

Manchester

Medway

Middlesbrough

Newcastle

Newham

Norfolk

North Somerset

North Yorkshire

Northamptonshire

Northumberland

Nottingham

Oldham

Oxfordshire

Peterborough

Plymouth

Poole

Reading

Redbridge

Rotherham

Rutland

Salford

Sandwell

Sefton

Sheffield

Slough

Solihull

Somerset

South Tyneside

Southampton

Southwark

Staffordshire

Stockport

Stockton

Stoke-on-Trent

Suffolk

Sunderland

Surrey

Swindon

Telford and Wrekin

Thurrock

Tower Hamlets

Trafford

Walsall

Waltham Forest

Wandsworth

Warrington

Warwickshire

West Berkshire

Wigan

Windsor and Maidenhead

Wokingham

Wolverhampton

Worcestershire

York

To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to his Department’s publication Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: One Year On, which primary care trusts chose child obesity as a World Class Commissioning target. (273808)

A third of all primary care trusts (PCTs) chose childhood obesity as one of their health outcomes. The Department does not hold data on the measures selected by each PCT. The information is available on individual PCT websites.