Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of avoidable hospital admissions of people with dementia in each of the last five years.

This data is not held centrally. Within Hospital Episode Statistics data, it is not possible to determine if an admission is 'avoidable' or not. The concept of an avoidable admission is broad and not defined within this data set.