Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of treatment provided to people diagnosed with Pick's disease.

While there is no specific treatment available for Pick’s disease, or frontotemporal dementia as it is sometimes referred to, it is important that people diagnosed with this disease and other forms of dementia receive appropriate treatment and support that can help with the symptoms.

Dementia is a priority for this Government. Whilst the Government’s Dementia 2020 Challenge does not distinguish between different types of dementia, we want every person diagnosed with dementia to receive meaningful care following their diagnosis.

The Challenge Implementation Plan, published in March 2016, set out the actions partners across health and care will take to ensure commitments in the 2020 Challenge are delivered. This includes ensuring every person diagnosed with dementia has meaningful care following their diagnosis, which supports them and those around them, irrespective of the type of dementia diagnosis they have.

The Government has doubled research spending on dementia, with a commitment to maintain this level of spending at £60 million a year to 2020, with an ambition for overall spending on research from all sectors to double by 2025. Much of this investment is in research to better understand the nature of dementia, to inform development of future treatments and ways to prevent the onset of the condition.