Question follow-through · 106510
Obesity: Surgery
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have received Gastric band surgery in each of the last three years in England and Wales broken down by male and female.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 19 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 21 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 27 Jan 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have received Gastric band surgery in each of the last three years in England and Wales broken down by male and female.
21 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Jan 2026
Answer published
Health is a devolved matter. The Department does not hold information on gastric band and gastric sleeve surgery in Wales.For England, the table below shows the number of gastric band and gastric sleeve surgeries undertaken between 2022 and 2025:Financial...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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