Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the diagnosis rates of dementia in each local authority area.

The Challenge on Dementia 2020 sets out the ambition for two thirds of people with dementia to receive a formal diagnosis. This has been achieved nationally.

NHS Digital collects data on the number of patients with a recorded dementia diagnosis in their clinical record and report the estimated dementia diagnosis rate by local authority area on a monthly basis. The data is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/recorded-dementia-diagnoses