MP's Questions

Mr. Sheerman: To ask the Secretary of State for

Health what recent assessment he has made of

the effectiveness of mechanisms for identifying

cardiovascular risk in children.

Ann Keen: We have made no recent assessment of

mechanisms for identifying cardiac risk in children but

we believe that lack of exercise and poor diet are major

factors. We are attempting to address these through the

Change 4 Life programme, launched in January of

2009.