Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many in-patient eating disorder beds there have been for (a) adults and (b) children in each year since 2010 in England.

Data regarding the number of in-patient eating disorder beds is not available for each year since 2010.

The latest management data available shows that the number of specialist eating disorder beds for adults is 415 (as at January 2017) and the number for children and young people is 220 (as at April 2017).

Children and young people with eating disorders are routinely and appropriately admitted to other types of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in-patient services. NHS England is currently undertaking a programme of work to redistribute CAMHS beds across the country to open beds in underserved areas of the country and strengthen integration with local pathways.