United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 122836
Eating Disorders: Children
Original
Introduced
10 February 2022
Last action
22 February 2022 · Answer
Status
Answered
Sponsors
—
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
22 February 2022
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the increase in prevalence of eating disorders amongst under 18s since March 2020.
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
10 February 2022
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the increase in prevalence of eating disorders amongst under 18s since March 2020.
Source: Commons
22 February 2022
Answer
For urgent cases, data for October to December 2021 shows that 649 children and young people with an eating disorder started treatment, compared to pre-pandemic levels of 353 in January to March 2020. A further 203 children and young people were waiting t...
Source: Written answer
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.
Documents
No documents linked.
Sponsors
- · Department of Health and Social Care · Answering body
Related records
No cross-record relationships stored yet.
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-02-10/122836
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1421963
- uk · wq-1421963 · source updated 22 February 2022