Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which (a) offices and (b) other Government departments officials working on dementia in his Department engage with as part of their roles.

Since work on the development of the new dementia strategy has resumed, officials have been engaging with a range of stakeholders including members of the Dementia Programme Board such as the Alzheimer’s Society, NHS England and NHS Improvement and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities. In addition, Departmental officials have engaged with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, the Department for Transport and the Department for Work and Pensions.