Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to make the UK the world leader in dementia research.

The United Kingdom has a number of world leading organisations focused on dementia research including the UK Dementia Research Institute, which focuses on basic and translation science, the National Institute for Health Research’s Dementia Translational Research Collaboration which delivers world-leading research translating advances in discovery science into the clinic and Join Dementia Research, to increase participation in research. The Department is a founding partner of the international Dementia Discovery Fund, supported by £250 million of venture capital backing commercial ventures trying innovative new approaches to dementia. We will be setting out our plans for dementia research in England in future years in due course.