Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which Ministers have become dementia friends; and on what date they became a dementia friend.

Five Department of Health Ministers are Dementia Friends. The Secretary of State for Health became a Dementia Friend on 18 March 2014. I became a Dementia Friend on 18 April 2013, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Quality (Earl Howe) became a Dementia Friend on 11 November 2013, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Life Sciences (George Freeman) became a Dementia Friend on 14 January 2014 and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health (Jane Ellison) became a Dementia Friend on 6 November 2014.

The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Dr Daniel Poulter), is a practising National Health Service doctor, who has cared for patients with dementia and received extensive dementia awareness training as part of his medical training.