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Obesity: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce youth obesity rates.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 19 Jun 2025
Target answer date: 23 Jun 2025
Answer: 30 Jun 2025 · 11 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 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce youth obesity rates.
23 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jun 2025
Answer published
We face a childhood obesity crisis, and the Government will take action to tackle the root causes of obesity head on, easing the strain on our National Health Service and creating the healthiest generation of children ever.We are delivering an ambitious p...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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