Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with organisations representing ethnic minority communities on the dementia diagnosis process.

We have had no specific discussions. However, NHS England and NHS Improvement have commissioned the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities’ Dementia Intelligence Network to investigate the underlying variation in dementia diagnosis rates in targeted areas in England. This will include a focus on social and economic deprivation, rurality, demographic characteristics including age, ethnicity and educational attainment and general health/life expectancy.

We will set out plans for dementia in England for the next 10 years later this year, which will include a focus on dementia diagnosis.