Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding was allocated to dementia care in the last financial year; and what plans he has to increase that funding.

Public expenditure on adult social care was £17.89bn in 2018/19. A further breakdown of this spending is published in the Adult Social Care Activity and Finance Report. Additionally, NHS England and Improvement allocates funding to Clinical Commissioning Groups who distribute on clinical areas, including dementia care, according to local priorities. This funding is part of the £114.6bn NHS budget last year.

At the 2019 Spending Review, the Government announced an additional £1bn grant for social care in 2020-21, as well as giving the NHS a 3.1% real terms growth in their 20/21 budget which represents an extra £6.3bn.