Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021, how the £2.3 billion funding announced for diagnostic services will be used to help tackle the dementia diagnosis backlog.

This funding will be used to increase the availability and capacity of services and equipment to diagnose a range of conditions. However, funding will not be specifically allocated for individual conditions. Earlier this year we made £17 million available to NHS England and NHS Improvement to address dementia waiting lists and increase the number of diagnoses. This funding was made available to clinical commissioning groups in June 2021. We will be setting out our plans for dementia services in England for future years in 2022.