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Eating Disorders: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of NHS mental health funding was allocated to specialist eating disorder services in each of the last five financial years.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
15 May 2026
Target answer date
20 May 2026
Answer
15 Jun 2026 · 31 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 May 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of NHS mental health funding was allocated to specialist eating disorder services in each of the last five financial years.

  2. 20 May 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 15 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    The following table shows the amount and proportion of National Health Service mental health funding, as well as the total mental health spend, that was allocated to specialist eating disorder services from 2022/23 to 2024/25:Financial yearTotal eating di...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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