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1420333

registered interest
date	07/02/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Obesity: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the National Obesity Audit will be published; and what assessment the Audit will make of the effectiveness of Tier 3 weight management services.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	119705
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2022 answer text <p>The National Obesity Audit (NOA) will launch in the first quarter of this year, at which point tier 3 weight management services will be able to submit data to the NOA. The NOA will seek to collect data and inform on demographics, comorbidities, access to and outcomes from services.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 15/02/2022 17:12:14 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1420334

registered interest
date	07/02/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Obesity: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to encourage an increase in GP referrals to medical weight loss clinics.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	119706
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2022 answer text <p>The government has invested £20.4 million in the Weight Management Enhanced Service in 2021/22, which supports general practitioners (GPs) to refer individuals to Weight Management Services. The Department have published training for primary care staff to become Healthy Weight Coaches, who facilitate conversations about weight, signpost and refer people to services, and offer support. We are also working closely with the Royal College of General Practitioners to understand how to further support GP referrals to weight management services.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 15/02/2022 17:16:16 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1420335

registered interest
date	07/02/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Obesity: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients are waiting for NHS Tier 3 and Tier 4 Weight Management Services; and what the average wait time is for those services.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	119707
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2022 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement does not routinely collect or publish data on the number of patients waiting for Tier 3 or 4 services or their average wait times; however, NHS England and NHS Improvement has sought data on this, which is currently being finalised.</p><p>The pandemic has delayed access to Tier 4 services, as with other elective surgeries, due to service providers being redeployed to support the COVID-19 response. NHS England and NHS Improvement has worked with Integrated Care Systems to develop regional recovery plans for Tier 3 and Tier 4 specialist weight management services. Funding has been provided to systems to support the implementation of these plans.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 15/02/2022 17:22:28 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1420336

registered interest
date	07/02/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Obesity: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of Tier 3 Weight Management Services in tackling rising levels of childhood obesity.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	119708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2022 answer text <p>We are committed to ongoing evaluation of the impact of weight management services. The National Obesity Audit, due to be launched in 2022, will collect patient level information and analyse robust comparative data from the different types of services which support people to manage their weight. This will include assessment of the efficacy of children’s tier 3 weight management services.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 15/02/2022 17:23:27 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1420337

registered interest
date	07/02/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Obesity: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to fund new Tier 3 Weight Management Clinics for (a) adults and (b) children.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	119709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2022 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement is investing £3 million in 2021/22 and a further £6 million in 2022/23 to mobilise 15 new Tier 3 clinics for children and young people. These services will provide holistic support to manage complications from severe obesity.</p><p>This is in addition to £4 million of new funding for 2021/22 to support the expansion of adult specialist weight management services and bariatric surgeries, including working with Integrated Care Systems to map the existing provision of services.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 15/02/2022 17:16:20 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1384567

registered interest
date	03/12/2021
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Obesity: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the recommendations of the report entitled Turning the Tide: A 10-year Healthy Weight Strategy published by the Obesity Health Alliance in September 2021; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	86598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2021 answer text <p>We welcome the Obesity Health Alliance’s report which makes a valuable contribution to the debate, endorsing policies we are taking forward on food and drink labelling, promotions and advertising. The forthcoming Government food strategy, to be published in early 2022, will set out the next steps in our approach.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 20/12/2021 15:03:54 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1384568

registered interest
date	03/12/2021
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Obesity: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Government's policies on tackling obesity; what recent discussions he has had with health representatives in (a) Scotland, (b) Wales and (c) Northern Ireland on the effectiveness of those policies; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	86599
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2021 answer text <p>Since the publication of chapter one of the Childhood Obesity Plan in 2016, the average sugar content of drinks subject to the Soft Drinks Industry Levy decreased by 43.7% between 2015 and 2019. There has been approximately a 13% reduction of sugar in breakfast cereals, yogurts and fromage frais.</p><p> </p><p>We have introduced legislation on mandatory out-of-home calorie labelling for large restaurants, cafes and takeaways; restrictions on the promotion of less healthy foods by location and volume price in store and online; and restrictions on the advertising of less healthy foods on TV before 9pm and via online paid for advertising. We have also invested £100 million in healthy weight programmes including the expansion of weight management services and incentives. Officials in the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities are in regular contact with the devolved administrations on measures in our healthy weight strategy.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 13/12/2021 11:49:17 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1289544

registered interest
date	24/02/2021
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Obesity: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of the 17 November 2020 to Question 112091 on Obesity, whether the views of (a) people with obesity (b) obesity patient organisations and (c) professional associations for healthcare professionals with a focus on obesity were considered by his Department during its development of plans for implementing the obesity strategy.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	158118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2021 answer text <p>We have been careful to consider the views of wide range of stakeholders including individuals, professional bodies and experts from across the United Kingdom as we developed our plans for implementing the healthy weight strategy including in response to specific policy proposals.</p><p> </p><p>Officials in the Department are in regular contact with their counterparts in the devolved administrations on United Kingdom-wide measures in our strategy, such as front of pack nutrition labelling on food and drink.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 158117 question first answered 02/03/2021 16:07:33 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day