Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 73602

Obesity: Children

Tabled: 29 August 2025

Answered: 4 September 2025

Question

Dan Aldridge

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of using Body Mass Index as a way of measuring childhood obesity through the National Child Measurement Programme.

Answer

Ashley Dalton

In January 2025, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) reviewed evidence and assessed the most accurate methods for identifying childhood obesity and thresholds for predicting the risk associated with overweight and obesity. They re...

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