To halt and then reverse the rise in obesity levels, programmes and initiatives need to operate in an environment that will influence, encourage and sustain a healthy lifestyle regime. This will require the direct involvement of a range of Departments and agencies.
The National Taskforce on Obesity, established on 10 March 2004, has carried out a comprehensive consultation process in which a number of Departments were identified as key stakeholders and invited to make submissions. All submissions received from this consultation process will inform the recommendations being made by the task force, which is due to present its recommendations to me by December 2004.