Question follow-through · 1135
Dementia: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help lower the costs of dementia care for patients and their families.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 14 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 May 2026
- Answer
- 20 May 2026 · 6 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
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
14 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help lower the costs of dementia care for patients and their families.
18 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 May 2026
Answer published
We are making progress on a National Care Service based on higher quality of care, greater choice and control, and joined-up health and care services, with over £4.6 billion of additional funding available for adult social care in 2028/29 compared to 2025...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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