Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the diagnosis rate of people suffering with dementia in Newcastle upon Tyne.

NHS England and NHS Improvement continue to monitor the dementia diagnosis rate each month and provide analysis on trends at a regional and sustainability and transformation partnership (STP) level to aid targeted recovery efforts.

Earlier this financial year the government allocated £17m to NHS England and NHS Improvement to specifically address dementia waiting lists and increase the number of diagnoses. This funding was made available to Clinical Commissioning Groups in June 2021.

We will be setting out our plans on dementia for England for future years later this year which will include a focus on dementia diagnosis.