Question follow-through · 27656
Dementia: Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including Primary Progressive Aphasia in the list of conditions requiring nationally commissioned services.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 30 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 4 Feb 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
30 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including Primary Progressive Aphasia in the list of conditions requiring nationally commissioned services.
4 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Feb 2025
Answer published
Primary progressive aphasia is a rare type of dementia where the recommended treatment is usually speech and language therapy, which is carried out by a speech and language therapist. NHS England is committed to delivering high quality care and support fo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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