Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress he has made on delivering dementia moonshot.

The Government has committed to invest at least £375 million in neurodegenerative disease research over the next five years to fund projects into a range of diseases, including dementia. The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) launched a highlight notice on dementia in March 2021 and in November 2021, issued a call inviting research proposals on digital approaches for the early detection and diagnosis of dementia. A new dementia strategy setting out plans for dementia in England will be published later this year. The strategy will include plans to increase dementia research and deliver a moonshot.