Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to allocate funding for the development of evidence-based eating disorder treatments for adults.

NHS England and NHS Improvement and clinical commissioning groups commission eating disorder services based on the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines. NICE guidelines are evidence-based recommendations for health and care in England and they set out the care and services suitable for people with an eating disorder.

NICE has published a guideline on the recognition and treatment of eating disorders which includes recommendations on evidence-based care including psychological treatments for anorexia nervosa, binge eating disorder and bulimia nervosa in adults. To support further development of further evidence-based treatments, the National Institute for Health Research has commissioned a number of studies on the treatment of eating disorders.