Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on dementia training for NHS staff on services for deaf users of British Sign Language in the last year.
There is no specific funding for dementia training for National Health Service staff on services for deaf users of British Sign Language. It is for individual providers to make the necessary local arrangements. All NHS staff looking after people with dementia will go through a dementia awareness programme. Health Education England staff will provide Tier 1 training to an additional 250,000 staff by March 2015, and will ensure that the tools and training opportunities are available to all staff by the end of 2018.