Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has targets for improvements to care and services for people with dementia over the period of this Parliament.

Dementia remains a key priority for the Government. We will implement the Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia 2020 (published in February 2015) in full to make sure the lives of those with dementia are transformed by 2020.

Working with our partners, we continue to make progress against the ambitions set in the March 2016 Implementation Plan which details how the commitments in the Challenge, across the four core themes of risk reduction, health and care, awareness and social action, and research will be met. This is reflected in the specific expectation set in the mandate to NHS England 2018/19 that two thirds of people living with dementia should receive a formal diagnosis. As of October 2018, the dementia diagnosis rate was 67.9%.