To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many children in England were (a) treated by a GP for undernutrition not caused by an eating disorder and (b) admitted to hospital for treatment for undernutrition not caused by an eating disorder in each of the last five years. (222684)

Data on general practitioner activity for those being treated for undernutrtion not caused by a eating disorder are not collected centrally.

Information on the total admissions to hospital of 0 to 18-year-olds in which the patient had a primary diagnosis of undernutrition without a primary or secondary diagnosis of an eating disorder at the start of his/her stay from 2002-03 to 2006-07 is set out in the following table. This covers national health service hospitals England and activity performed in the independent sector in England commissioned by English NHS.