Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether funding provided to organisations to deliver commitments set out in the Prime Minister's Challenge on dementia 2020 plan was issued for tender.
In 2018 we undertook a review of the progress made in implementing the Challenge on Dementia 2020. Respondents told us that we were largely on track to meet our commitments. In a small number of areas, additional or refined actions were identified to help ensure that commitments could be met. The report of the review was published on 22 February 2019 and is available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dementia-2020-challenge-progress-review
The Challenge contained the commitment to spend £300 million on dementia research over the five years to March 2020. This commitment was delivered a year early with £341 million spent on dementia research over the four years to 31 March 2019.