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.

Four Department of Health Ministers are Dementia Friends. The Secretary of State for Health became a Dementia Friend on 20 March 2014. I became a Dementia Friend on 6 November 2014, 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 Care Quality (Ben Gummer) became a Dementia Friend on 11 July 2014.

The Minister of State for Community and Social Care (Alistair Burt) and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for NHS Productivity (Lord Prior) plan to become Dementia Friends in July 2015.

Approximately 750 Departmental staff are Dementia Friends.