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Table 2: Prevalence of obesity among children aged 2-15 by sex and age, England 1997-2004
Percentages
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

Boys

All aged 2-15

12.7

13.0

16.4

14.5

15.5

16.9

17.0

18.9

2-10

11.1

11.4

16.1

12.2

13.5

15.2

14.9

16.2

11-15

15.6

16.3

16.9

18.8

18.8

19.8

20.4

23.7

Girls

All aged 2-15

12.4

13.8

13.7

14.2

14.5

17.1

16.1

17.8

2-10

10.7

11.8

13.0

11.8

12.7

15.8

12.5

11.9

11-15

16.2

17.5

15.2

18.1

17.7

19.2

21.9

26.2

Bases Boys

All aged 2-15

3,063

1,981

977

877

1,653

3,745

1,410

645

2-10

2,007

1,336

633

570

1,035

2,364

876

416

11-15

1,056

645

343

306

618

1,381

533

230

Girls

All aged 2-15

3,069

1,872

950

841

1,699

3,636

1,444

579

2-10

2,082

1,216

628

523

1,094

2,290

897

343

11-15

987

656

322

318

605

1,346

547

236

Source: Health Survey for England 2004—updating of trend tables to include 2004 data, The Information Centre For Health and Social Care.

Table 3: Prevalence of obesity among adults aged 16 and over in North West London SHA(3-year moving average) by sex, 1995-2002
Percentages
1995-97 1996-98 1997-99 1998-2000 1999-2001 2000-02

Men

13.3

15.1

17.7

17.3

17.0

13.4

Women

19.4

18.6

19.7

20.1

22.8

22.8

Bases

Men

487

518

354

348

275

295

Women

593

615

422

395

334

369

Source: Health Survey for England: Health and Lifestyle indicators for strategic health authorities 1994-2002, Department of Health.

Table 4: Prevalence of obesity among children aged 2-10 years in London GOR, 2001-02
Percentage

Children aged 2-10

18.2

Base (weighted)

830

Base (unweighted)

701

Source: Obesity among children under 11, Department of Health

Ophthalmic Services

David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the total cost of ophthalmic services in (a) England and (b) each region was in each of the last five years. [88145]

Ms Rosie Winterton: Expenditure on national health service general ophthalmic services is shown in the following table. This covers the cost of NHS-funded sight tests and the cost of NHS optical vouchers to assist with the purchase of spectacles. The table also shows expenditure for the last five years to 2004-05, which is the latest year for which full accounts data are currently available. Data for NHS expenditure on hospital ophthalmic services are not available centrally.


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Expenditure on general ophthalmic services by former strategic health authority area
£000
Strategic health authority 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05

Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire

12,233

12,741

12,520

12,910

14,200

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire

8,351

8,700

8,986

9,197

10,364

Birmingham and the Black Country

17,979

18,695

18,908

20,081

21,548

Cheshire and Merseyside

16,230

17,105

16,834

17,276

18,274

County Durham and Tees Valley

7,490

7,891

9,137

8,498

7,561

Cumbria and Lancashire

11,547

12,072

12,510

13,079

13,867

Dorset and Somerset

6,980

7,361

6,349

8,045

8,433

Essex

8,936

9,371

9,774

10,448

10,712

Greater Manchester

16,746

17,498

17,419

18,278

18,733

Hampshire and Isle of Wight

8,998

9,413

9,978

9,917

10,680

Kent and Medway

8,730

8,929

7,919

10,593

10,457

Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland

8,575

9,289

9,255

10,123

10,804

Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire

11,483

12,191

12,143

13,292

14,722

North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire

8,816

9,517

9,437

9,656

10,523

North Central London

7,235

7,497

7,570

7,621

7,913

North East London

10,831

10,982

10,187

11,924

12,219

North West London

9,094

9,547

9,608

9,498

9,911

Northumberland, Tyne and Wear

10,066

10,501

10,985

11,247

11,670

Shropshire and Staffordshire

8,483

9,165

8,696

9,675

10,439

South East London

7,718

8,004

7,615

8,279

8,688

South West London

6,154

5,902

6,021

6,271

6,750

South West Peninsula

10,311

10,557

10,771

10,830

12,107

South Yorkshire

7,810

8,219

8,505

8,972

9,507

Surrey and Sussex

12,820

12,603

13,325

13,538

14,405

Thames Valley

9,223

9,531

9,993

10,290

11,367

Trent

14,994

15,838

16,074

17,425

18,025

West Midlands South

8,675

9,061

8,728

9,352

9,962

West Yorkshire

13,434

14,203

14,664

15,296

16,140

England

289,942

302,383

303,911

321,611

339,981


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