Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Alzheimer's Society's Left to Cope Alone report published in June 2022, what steps she is taking to ensure the 30,000 additional people awaiting a dementia diagnosis since March 2020 are diagnosed as soon as possible.

In 2021/22, we made £17 million available to clinical commissioning groups to address dementia waiting lists and increase the number of diagnoses. NHS England is currently reviewing the final assurance reporting on the use of this funding, which was disbursed to systems in June 2021. This aims to identify areas of good practice in dementia diagnosis and provision of pre and post diagnostic support to share with dementia clinical networks and stakeholders in 2023.