Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of changes to Community Support Services on readmission rates to special eating disorder units.

The Government is investing an additional £30 million per year to improve access to effective eating disorder care in the community. The additional investment has helped to create 67 new or extended Community Eating Disorder teams across England. The ambition is to improve early access to effective care, improve outcomes and reduce relapse rates, the need for inpatient care, and length of stay when admission is required.

For any admission, the community eating disorder team are to ensure continuity of care pre- and post- admission and maintain contact with the young person and family during admission.