Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many finished admission episodes there were with a primary diagnosis of an eating disorder in each month in (a) 2015-16 and (b) 2016-17 for which figures are available.

The following table shows the number of finished admission episodes in hospital settings in England with a primary diagnosis eating disorder 2015-16. Finalised data for 2016-17 is not available at this time.

Activity in English National Health Service Hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Digital

Note: These are diagnoses for hospital admissions only and there may be cases diagnosed in other care settings. These data should not be described as a count of people as the same person may have been admitted more than once in the same year.