Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children and young people have been waiting to start treatment for an eating disorder in each quarter since the first quarter of 2016-17, broken down by (a) urgent and (b) routine cases; and what the average waiting time for a child or young person to start treatment for an eating disorder has been in each quarter since the first quarter of 2016-17.

The information is not held in the format requested.

However, the attached table shows the number of children and young people waiting at intervals of up to one week, one to four weeks, four to 12 weeks and 12 weeks and over for eating disorder treatment since the first quarter of 2016/17.