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Dementia Services

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that helpful intervention. I do not want to get sucked into the rather bad-tempered debate about tiers 2 and 3. The national dementia strategy is clear in its prioritisation, but is that filtered through to all levels of the NHS, which it must be if it is to be delivered? It was promised that every town in the UK would have access to a memory clinic—that was how the promise was phrased—but it is clear from the NAO report that that will not happen. The hon. Member for Chorley (Mr. Hoyle) used a different word, and spoke of memory centres, but the hon. Member for Eddisbury spoke of memory services—[Interruption.] He pointed out that the rhetoric was now memory "services" rather than "centres" or "clinics". We need to be clear where that promise is going. Let us face it: what we are talking about is everybody in every town having appropriate access to specialist services to deal with memory dementia.