Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to restore rates of dementia diagnosis to pre-covid-19 outbreak levels; and if he will take steps to further improve dementia diagnosis rates from those pre-covid-19 outbreak baselines.

The Government has made £17 million available this financial year to NHS England and NHS Improvement to reduce dementia waiting lists and increase the number of diagnoses. NHS England and NHS Improvement continue to monitor the dementia diagnosis rates and deliver targeted efforts to support recovery of referrals, diagnosis and where appropriate, support access to post-diagnostic support. We will be setting out our plans on dementia for England for future years in due course.