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Dementia Strategy

My hon. Friend raises a very interesting point. I do not want to take him too far away from his prepared remarks, but one of the biggest problems that all of us, the Minister included, contend with is that even when polling takes place to find out what the country's priorities are, caring for our elderly population is not an item that is polled. It is subsumed in the health service or pensions and is never an item on its own. One of the problems of the demographics we face—based on what my hon. Friend has just said, I dare say that he has picked up on it—is that we find it difficult to identify precisely how people feel about putting it as a priority because it is never disaggregated as an issue of concern.