Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, following their response to the Seventeenth Report of Session 2017–19 by the House of Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (HC855) on 23 September, how many sites have been selected to "pump prime" innovative models of service for adults with eating disorders; and where those test sites will be.

NHS England and NHS Improvement are providing ‘pump prime’ funding to 12 pilot sites over 2019/20 and 2020/21 to test and implement new models of integrated primary and community mental health care for adults and older adults with a range of severe mental illnesses. Eight of these will test models that include services for adult eating disorders, including:

- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Sustainability and Transformation Partnership;

- Cheshire and Merseyside Sustainability and Transformation Partnership;

- Herefordshire and Worcestershire Sustainability and Transformation Partnership;

- Hertfordshire and West Essex Sustainability and Transformation Partnership;

- North East London Sustainability and Transformation Partnership;

- North West London Sustainability and Transformation Partnership;

- Somerset Sustainability and Transformation Partnership; and

- South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Integrated Care System

These sites will work towards improving access to care for adults and older adults with eating disorders in line with published guidance from NHS England and NHS Improvement. They will also generate the first phase of learning about how to achieve greater levels of parity with children and young people’s eating disorder services over the course of the NHS Long Term Plan.