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Dementia Services

It is interesting that the hon. Gentleman seems to have a question about every single point that I am making. I shall come back to him, if I may, after I have made sure that the Secretary of State is aware of what I am saying. Despite questions from Opposition Members on the budget for memory clinics and the number of staff expected to be employed to deliver them, the Government could only answer:""Decisions about the nature, number and funding of the memory clinics will be made locally by primary care trusts, depending on local circumstances."—[Official Report, 23 February 2009; Vol. 488, c. 202W.]" What sort of a promise is that? The question for the Secretary of State today remains this: what is the precise number of planned and existing memory clinics and how many specially trained staff are there in the country?