Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding he is providing to help improve the quality of life for dementia patients in care homes in Solihull constituency.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator for health and social care in England. The CQC monitor, inspect and regulate services to make sure they meet fundamental standards of quality and safety. Inspection reports on individual providers are made publicly available.

To accelerate the development of new treatments for dementia, the Government has launched the Dementia Mission, support by £95 million of Government funding. The Mission will work with industry and other United Kingdom initiatives by developing innovations in biomarkers, data and digital sciences, and increasing the number and speed of clinical trials in dementia. The Mission is part of the commitment to double dementia research funding by 2024/25, to £160 million a year.

At Autumn Statement 2022, the Government has also made available up to £7.5 billion in additional funding over two years to support adult social care and discharge, with up to £2.8 billion available in 2023/24 and up to £4.7 billion in 2024/25. We also recently confirmed the £570 million Market Sustainability and Investment Fund Workforce Fund, which will support increased adult social care capacity, improve market sustainability and enable local authorities to make tangible improvements to adult social care services. For Solihull, this historic funding increase has provided the council with £3 million in new ring-fenced grant funding in 2023/24.