Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to minimise changes in the named carer for dementia patients.

We recognise that homecare workers provide a growing range of vital care and support services to enable people to live well with dementia in their homes. We want to see greater provision of innovative and high quality dementia care at home, delivered in a way that is personalised and appropriate to the specific needs of the person with dementia.

Where local services are concerned, clinical commissioning groups and local authorities are responsible for commissioning high quality dementia care at home based on their local population's needs and ensuing that the services they secure provide the best quality for local people.

On 21 February 2015 The Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia 2020 was published, building on the achievements of the Prime Minister’s challenge on dementia 2012-2015. The Government is clear that dementia remains a priority and will implement the 2020 Challenge in full to make sure that dementia care, support, awareness and research are transformed by 2020.