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Dementia: Health Professions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dementia specialists there were in England in each year since 2010 by local authority.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
20 Nov 2025
Target answer date
24 Nov 2025
Answer
26 Nov 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 20 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dementia specialists there were in England in each year since 2010 by local authority.

  2. 24 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 26 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    We do not hold this information centrally. Dementia care involves multiple specialties. We hold data by profession rather than by specific skills or areas of knowledge.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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