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Dementia: Research

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Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 135481, tabled on 7 March 2022

Question

Chi Onwurah
Labour
Newcastle upon Tyne Central
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is Government policy to double dementia research funding.

Answer

Maria Caulfield
Conservative
Lewes
Commons

Answered on

10 March 2022

The Government has committed to invest £375 million in neurodegenerative disease research over the next five years to fund projects into a range of diseases including dementia. We will set out plans on dementia in England later this year, including for dementia research.

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Department of Health and Social Care
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