Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of implications for its policies of the Global Burden of Disease study findings, published on 7 January 2022, that dementia cases in the UK will increase by 75 per cent by 2050.

We are aware of the findings of the study, although no formal assessment has been made.

The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) has been co-ordinating and delivering work relating to dementia risk reduction. This includes producing the Productive Healthy Ageing profile, which contains data for local areas on the risk factors for dementia and working with voluntary sector partners to raise awareness of dementia risk reduction messages. OHID also has responsibility for national oversight of the NHS Health Check programme which aims to prevent some forms of dementia.

We will be setting out our plans on dementia for England for future years in 2022. This will include a focus on prevention and risk reduction.