Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of eating disorder (a) beds and (b) services are delivered by the private sector.

The proportion of specialist eating disorder beds provided by the private sector is 44% of adult beds and 75% of children’s beds, and of all specialist eating disorder beds 69% are private sector.

The proportion of services delivered by the private sector is not collected centrally.