Question follow-through · 49020
Eating Disorders: Death
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the accurate recording of deaths related to eating disorders; and what steps he is taking with the (a) National Medical Examiner, (b) Office for Nation
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 29 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 May 2025
- Answer
- 13 May 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
29 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the accurate recording of deaths related to eating disorders; and what steps he is taking with the (a) National Medical Examiner, (b) Office for Nation
1 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 May 2025
Answer published
It is important that all deaths are recorded accurately, and it is right that the extent to which eating disorders and other factors have caused or contributed to deaths should be explored further, in collaboration with stakeholders including the National...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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