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381257

registered interest
date	15/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Obesity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his speech of 4 June 2015 to the NHS Confederation, when he expects to publish the obesity strategy; and what plans he has for consultation on that strategy.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	2552
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2015 answer text <p>We will put forward our plans in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 18/06/2015 15:23:38 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

223998

registered interest
date	26/02/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Obesity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with NICE on its potential new indicator on obesity to be included in NICE's Quality and Outcomes Framework indicator menu.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	225639
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p>Departmental officials have regular discussions with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and have responded to its recent public consultation on potential new indicators for inclusion in the 2016/17 Quality and Outcomes Framework indicator menu.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 03/03/2015 14:26:33 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

224007

registered interest
date	26/02/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Obesity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of patients identified by their general practitioner as being obese have (a) received follow-up advice on how to lose or manage their weight and (b) succeeded in losing weight and maintaining their weight loss in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	225670
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p>The existing obesity related Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) indicator supports general practitioner’s to identify patients who are overweight or obese. There are, however, no routinely required assessments of the number of people who have received follow up advice, lost weight or maintained weight loss over 12 months.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Local authorities, working with local and national partners across the health and social care system, have responsibility for public health and the assessment and provision of preventative weight management services. Public Health England (PHE) works closely with local authorities to ensure access to services and outcomes are recorded, though this is not routinely reported back to a national database.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>PHE is responding to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence consultation on the QOF and Clinical Commissioning Group Outcome Indicators to highlight improvements to the system that support intervention and follow up support for patients identified as overweight and obese.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 03/03/2015 17:08:13 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

223293

registered interest
date	24/02/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Obesity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of differences in genetic susceptibility to obesity.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	225250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2015 answer text <p>Whilst no direct assessment has been made of the implications for public health policy in relation to differences in genetic susceptibility to obesity, health policy is however responsive to and recognises where the evidence supports specific action in relation to particular population subgroups.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 27/02/2015 14:00:14 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

93824

registered interest
date	16/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Obesity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spends on (a) bariatric surgery for obesity and (b) lifestyle intervention programmes.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	210927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p>Information about National Health Service spending on bariatric surgery is available from reference costs, which are the average cost to NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts for providing defined services in a given financial year to NHS patients. Reference costs for acute care are collected by Healthcare Resource Groups (HRGs), which are standard groupings of clinically similar treatments that consume common levels of healthcare resource. The HRGs in the attached table are specific to bariatric surgery.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Estimated cost of bariatric surgery to NHS providers in England by HRG, 2012-13</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Total cost (£ million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FZ84Z</p></td><td><p>Stomach Bypass Procedures for Obesity</p></td><td><p>16.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FZ85Z</p></td><td><p>Restrictive Stomach Procedures for Obesity</p></td><td><p>8.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FZ86Z</p></td><td><p>Endoscopic Insertion of Gastric Balloon for Obesity</p></td><td><p>0.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Total estimated cost</p></td><td><p>25.3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Source: </em>Reference costs, Department of Health</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p> </p><p>Data includes the cost of procedures performed in day case, ordinary elective, non-elective and outpatient settings. Other costs outside of these settings are not included.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have given local authorities a budget of £8.2 billion over three years to help them manage public health issues including lifestyle intervention programmes including NHS Health Checks and the National Child Measurement Programme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition, Public Health England runs a range of well-known marketing programmes such as Change4Life, Smokefree, Be Clear on Cancer and, most recently, Dementia Friends. These deliver positive health outcomes, such as reducing adult smoking prevalence and increasing early diagnosis of cancer. These marketing programmes utilise behavioural science, commercial best practice and digital tools to engage hundreds of thousands of people. The total core marketing budget for 2014-2015 is £53 million.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 23/10/2014 15:46:27 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger