To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much the NHS has spent on research into the (a) causes and (b) treatment of dementia in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. (275887)

I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire (Mr. Lansley) on 24 February 2009, Official Report, column 640W.