Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Primary Care Dementia Data, May 2023, Official Statistics; for what reasons new dementia diagnoses are not included in those statistics alongside total dementia diagnoses; if he will publish data showing new dementia diagnoses for each of the past five years; and if he will make it his policy to include data on new dementia diagnoses in future Official Statistics releases on dementia.

Data regarding patients who are newly diagnosed with dementia was introduced to the Core GP Contract GP Extraction Service (GPES) data collection for the 2023/24 financial year. This collection is the data source for the Primary Care Dementia Data Official Statistics publication. Data is being collected for each month, starting from April 2023. NHS England are currently assessing the data quality of this information to ensure it meets basic data quality standards and is caveated where appropriate. Once data quality has been assured to be appropriate for publication, NHS England will release this data in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.