Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will convene a dementia medicines taskforce to accelerate the development of new medicines.

Officials have met Alzheimer’s Research UK to discuss the proposal for a Dementia Medicines Taskforce. We are currently considering the merits of the proposal to accelerate patient access to medicines with NHS England and NHS Improvement We will set out plans for dementia in England for the next 10 years later this year, including on diagnosis, risk reduction and prevention and research. The strategy will include ambitions for research to develop new disease-modifying treatments.