Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the Let's Talk Loneliness Grants.

The department sets objectives for grant funding when designing the grant scheme and allocates funding in accordance with those objectives. The department and its public bodies deliver all grant funding in line with the Government Functional Standard GovS 015: Grants. Due to the scale of funding for the Let’s Talk Loneliness Grants, this involved monitoring throughout delivery and a final outcomes report provided to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, including survey findings.