Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of presentations of children and young people at accident and emergency departments where the presentation is primarily due to or related to an eating disorder in each year from 2017 to 2022.

No specific estimate has been made. NHS Digital has advised that between April 2017 to March 2021, presentations related to an eating disorder are not separately identifiable within Hospital Episode Statistics for accident and emergency departments. Data for 2021/22 is collected within the Emergency Care Dataset. However, NHS Digital has advised that the information requested on diagnoses is not currently available due to issues related to data quality.