Question follow-through · 902070
Obesity: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help prevent childhood obesity.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 19 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 7 Jan 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
19 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help prevent childhood obesity.
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Jan 2025
Answer published
Obesity robs our kids of the best possible start in life, and is particularly concentrated in the most deprived areas. Supporting people to stay healthier for longer is at the heart of our Health Mission. We face a childhood obesity crisis and this govern...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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