Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to promote the dissemination across the NHS of good practice in the treatment and care of autistic people with eating disorders, including learning from the PEACE pathway.

The Independent review into prevalence and support for mental health conditions, ADHD and autism, published on 9 October, provides analysis and recommendations across a wide range of issues relating to the current provision of services in this area, including the treatment of eating disorders.

The Government issued an initial response on the day of publication, but we will set out the full action we are taking in response to the review recommendations in our new Mental Health Strategy to be published later this year, including in relation to the issues raised by the Hon. Member.

The response is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-pledges-earlier-support-to-tackle-mental-health-crises