Question follow-through · 1425
Obesity: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle childhood obesity in Dudley.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 23 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 29 Jul 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle childhood obesity in Dudley.
25 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Jul 2024
Answer published
The Government recognises that prevention will always be better, and cheaper, than a cure. We will take action to prevent and tackle the obesity crisis head on, creating the healthiest generation of children ever.As set out in the King’s Speech, we are co...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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