Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the dementia diagnosis rate in England to the Dementia 2020 Challenge's national target rate of 66.7 per cent.

The information is not available in the format requested.

With NHS England and NHS Improvement, we continue to monitor monthly trends in the dementia diagnosis rate. Due to the impact of the pandemic, the estimated diagnosis rate fell below the national target for the first time since December 2016. In March 2021, the rate increased to 61.6% and has remained stable.

In 2021/22, £17 million was allocated to NHS England and NHS Improvement to address dementia waiting lists and increase the number of diagnoses. This funding was made available to clinical commissioning groups in June 2021. We will set out plans for dementia in England later this year, including a focus on dementia diagnosis.