Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it the Government's policy to spend £1.6 billion on dementia research over the next ten years, as mentioned in the 2019 Conservative Party Manifesto.
The Government has committed to invest £375 million in neurodegenerative disease research over the next five years to fund projects into a range of diseases including dementia. We are reviewing ways to increase further research on dementia and will set out our plans on dementia in England for future years in 2022. This will include our ambitions for dementia research and funding.