Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle dementia.

Dementia remains a key priority for the Government. We will implement the Government’s Challenge on Dementia 2020 (published in February 2015) in full to make this the best country to live in with dementia by 2020.

Working with our partners, we continue to make progress against the ambitions set out 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.

We have undertaken a review of our implementation plan to reflect on what has been achieved so far and what more we need to do to achieve our goals by 2020. We will publish a revised plan by the end of the calendar year.