Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the impact of the funding his Department provided for tackling dementia waiting lists and increasing dementia diagnoses in 2021-22 on the national dementia diagnosis rate in the most recent period for which data is available.

No formal assessment has yet been made. NHS England and NHS Improvement continue to monitor the monthly diagnosis rate and are analysing trends at regional and sustainability and transformation partnership level to aid targeted recovery efforts. We will set out plans for dementia in England for the next 10 years later this year, including the specific health and care needs of people living with dementia and their carers and dementia diagnoses.