Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will support the Dementia Friendly Parliament initiative.

The Department is supportive of the Dementia Friendly Parliament initiative, which is making an important contribution to our wider work on developing dementia friendly communities, as part of the Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia. I am already a Dementia Friend, as are a number of other Ministers in the Department, and we encourage all Members, Peers and parliamentary staff to become Dementia Friends.