Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle loneliness.

The Government published its first strategy to combat loneliness on 15 October 2018, ‘A connected society: A Strategy for tackling loneliness – laying the foundations for change’.

The strategy brought together the Government, local government, public services, the voluntary and community sector and businesses to identify opportunities to tackle loneliness and build more integrated communities.