Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of people diagnosed with Alzheimer's in the last 10 years.

Whilst no formal assessment has been made, we know that the number of people with dementia has increased. The latest dementia diagnosis rate reported by NHS England for the end of January 2024 was 64.4%.

A table showing the number of people with a primary diagnosis of Alzheimer’s each year from 2016 to 2023, as data is not available before 2016, broken down by the type and stage of the diagnosis is attached.