Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government is on track to meet its funding targets for the dementia moonshot.

The Government is strongly committed to supporting research into dementia and has committed to double funding for dementia research. We will double funding for dementia research to £160 million per year by the end of 2024/25. We estimate that the Government spent over £454 million on dementia research from 2018/19 to 2022/23.

On 14 August 2022, the former Prime Minister launched the Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Mission, along with £95 million of funding. The Mission is part of the commitment to double dementia research funding and aims to develop innovative research tools and boost the number and speed of clinical trials in dementia and neurodegeneration. In the Autumn Statement 2023, the Government stated it is launching the first Clinical Trials Delivery Accelerator focused on dementia, with up to £20 million of funding to help innovation reach National Health Service patients even faster.