To ask the Minister of Health what work his Department is carrying out to prepare a successor strategy to A Fitter Future For All: Reviewed Outcome Framework 2019-2022.

The current obesity prevention framework, A Fitter Future for All 2012-2022, seeks to take an integrated approach to obesity prevention and contains outcomes and actions across the life course for the entire population of Northern Ireland.

Work is well underway to develop a successor strategy for A Fitter Future for All. I approved the project initiation in June 2021 and a project board has been set up, drawing membership from the statutory sector, academia, voluntary/community organisations and people with lived experience of overweight and obesity. The new strategy will be co-produced and it is anticipated it will undergo formal public consultation later in this year, with an intention to publish a final strategy, subject to approval, in 2023.