Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament 25 September 2025
25 Sep 2025 · S6 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
First Minister’s Question Time
Dementia
Dementia affects not just those who are diagnosed, but the hundreds of unpaid carers across Glasgow and Scotland who provide them with vital support. What urgent steps is the Scottish Government taking to ensure that those carers get the financial, emotional and respite support that they need as dementia cases continue to rise?
In the same item of business
6. Foysol Choudhury (Lothian) (Lab)
Lab
To ask the First Minister what urgent action the Scottish Government is taking in light of Public Health Scotland’s estimate that dementia in Scotland is set...
The First Minister (John Swinney)
SNP
I recognise the evidence that the member references. Many in the chamber will personally know an individual or a family impacted by dementia. That is why I r...
Foysol Choudhury
Lab
Public Health Scotland estimates that by 2044, as many as 53,800 more people could be living with dementia compared with in 2019. Alzheimer Scotland has righ...
The First Minister
SNP
Yes, I agree that those measures should be taken—they are in the population health framework and the dementia strategy and are exactly the approach that the ...
Annie Wells (Glasgow) (Con)
Con
Dementia affects not just those who are diagnosed, but the hundreds of unpaid carers across Glasgow and Scotland who provide them with vital support. What ur...
The First Minister
SNP
Support is available for carers in Scotland that is not available in other parts of the United Kingdom. That is because of the investment that the Government...
The Presiding Officer
NPA
We move to constituency and general supplementary questions. If all members are concise, we will be able to involve more members.