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Eating Disorders

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) improve care and treatment for people with eating disorders and (b) reduce the number of lives lost to eating disorders.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 3 Nov 2025
Target answer date: 5 Nov 2025
Answer: 17 Nov 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

3 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) improve care and treatment for people with eating disorders and (b) reduce the number of lives lost to eating disorders.
5 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Nov 2025
Answer published
As part of our mission to build a National Health Service fit for the future, there is a critical need to shift the treatment of eating disorders from hospital to the community. Improved care in the community will give young people early access to evidenc...

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