Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee

Childhood obesity inquiry

Closed Opened 5 Mar 2018 Closed 5 Mar 2018

Health and Social Care Committee Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗

Inquiry scope (the committee's words)

The Health and Social Care Committee has followed up its predecessor's work in the last Parliament ( Childhood obesity: brave and bold action and Childhood obesity: follow-up ) by holding further evidence sessions on childhood obesity.

Where it stands

The inquiry is closed, opened 5 March 2018.

The committee has published 1 report, most recently 8th Report - Childhood obesity: Time for action on 30 May 2018.

The government's response

Published 30 January 2019.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The government agrees that an effective childhood obesity plan needs a joined-up, whole systems approach, and responds to the Committee's other recommendations by consulting, reviewing or declining, with a stated ambition to halve childhood obesity by 2030.

On advertising, it has committed to consult on a 9pm watershed for TV HFSS advertising and similar protection online, but says there are "no current plans" to ban brand equity and licensed characters.
On price promotions and placement, it is consulting on legislation to ban price promotions of HFSS products that encourage overconsumption and their placement at key selling locations. The consultation runs until 6 April.
On additional child measurement points, it believes they would provide "minimal insight" at substantial cost, so has "no plans to mandate additional measurements".
On fiscal measures, it says it "will not shy away from further action, including mandatory and fiscal levers" if industry fails to act through voluntary programmes. It disputes that levy revenue was diverted into core schools budgets.

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Reports

8th Report - Childhood obesity: Time for action30 May 2018

All reports

Evidence

3 oral evidence sessionsLatest 22 May 2018
67 written submissions

All evidence

Recent activity

Government Response to the Committee's Eighth: Childhood obesity: Time for action30 January 2019, Report published
Correspondence with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care relating to the sale of energy drinks14 November 2018, Correspondence
Correspondence from Minister Steve Brine MP relating to the evidence session on Childhood obesity inquiry31 October 2018, Correspondence

Reports

1 report

8th Report - Childhood obesity: Time for action

HC No.: HC 882
Published: 30 May 2018
Items: 0
Government response: Government response published 30 January 2019. Read the government's response ↗

Oral evidence sessions

3 sessions

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Date	Session and witnesses	Source
22 May 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
8 May 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
1 May 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗

Written evidence

67 submissions recorded

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Reference	Date	Submitter
COY0068 Full text not held	27 Jun 2018	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
COY0067 Full text not held	7 Jun 2018	British Takeaway Campaign
COY0066 Full text not held	7 Jun 2018	Local Government Association
COY0065 Full text not held	7 Jun 2018	Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences
COY0064 Full text not held	23 May 2018	Hugh Fearnley-Whittinstall
COY0063 Full text not held	23 May 2018	Cancer Research UK
COY0062 Full text not held	23 May 2018	Living Loud
COY0061 Full text not held	23 May 2018	British Retail Consortium
COY0060 Full text not held	23 May 2018	Living Loud
COY0059 Full text not held	23 May 2018	Croydon Council
COY0058 Full text not held	10 May 2018	Shine
COY0050 Full text not held	30 Apr 2018	MRC Epidemiology Unit,
COY0048 Full text not held	26 Apr 2018	Leeds Beckett University
COY0057 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	Oliver Mytton
COY0056 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	Oliver Mytton
COY0055 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	Thijs van Rens
COY0054 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	Department of Health and Social Care
COY0053 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	NHS CHAMP Project
COY0052 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	SDIL Evaulation Team
COY0051 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	Professor Jack Winkler
COY0049 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	UK Health Forum
COY0047 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	Food and Drink Federation
COY0046 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	Advertising Association
COY0045 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	Centre for Exercise, Nutrition and Health Sciences
COY0044 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	Jamie Oliver Group
COY0043 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	CLOSER, the home of longitudinal research
COY0042 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	British Dietetic Association
COY0041 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	School Food Matters
COY0040 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	Sport and Recreation Alliance
COY0039 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	Nestle UK
COY0038 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	University of Liverpool
COY0037 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	HENRY
COY0036 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	Appetite and Obesity Research Group, University of Liverpool
COY0035 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	Professor Paul Kelly
COY0034 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	Dr Eric Robinson
COY0033 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	British Soft Drinks Association
COY0032 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	Association for Physical Education
COY0030 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	Weight Watchers
COY0029 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	Guys & St Thomas' Charity
COY0028 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
COY0027 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	Association of Directors of Public Health
COY0026 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	Professor Peymane Adab
COY0025 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	Living Loud
COY0024 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming
COY0023 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	Bob Goodall
COY0022 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	The Food Foundation
COY0021 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons
COY0020 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	The School & Nursery Milk Alliance
COY0019 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	ukactive
COY0018 Full text not held	25 Apr 2018	The Daily Mile Foundation

Correspondence

3 letters

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Published	Direction	Letter
14 Nov 2018	Not recorded	Correspondence with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care relating to the sale of energy drinks
31 Oct 2018	Not recorded	Correspondence from Minister Steve Brine MP relating to the evidence session on Childhood obesity inquiry
12 Jun 2018	To committee	Letter from Nadhim Zahawi MP, Minister of State for Children and Families, regarding voluntary healthy rating scheme