Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on doubling dementia research funding by 2024-5.

We will double funding for dementia research to £160 million per year by 2024/25. This will span all areas of research, from causes and prevention to treatment and care, delivering evidence to help prevent, diagnose and treat dementia, enabling the best possible care and quality of life for people with dementia.

In 2021/22, the total Government spend on dementia research was £80.3 million. Recent progress to meet the commitment includes the launch of the Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Mission, which aims to speed up the development of new treatments, supported by £95 million of Government funding; £131 million committed to the next five years of the UK Dementia Research Institute; and £11 million investment into digital innovations to detect and diagnose dementia.