Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of treatment provision for people diagnosed with eating disorders.

£30 million is being invested each year this Parliament to improve children and young people’s services for eating disorders. This new funding will be used to improve community based eating disorder services so patients are helped earlier and fewer need in-patient care.

NHS England will set a new access standard, to be achieved by 2020, that 95% of patients to be treated within four weeks of their first contact with a designated healthcare professional. For urgent cases, the standard will be one week. The first data demonstrating performance against this standard will be published in May 2017.