Question follow-through · 20409
Loneliness
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the (a) economic and (b) social impact of loneliness.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 20 Dec 2024 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the (a) economic and (b) social impact of loneliness.
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Dec 2024
Answer published
There are multiple sources of evidence on loneliness including research on the economic and social impact of loneliness.The economic impact of lonelinessDCMS research estimates that the costs associated with loneliness based on the impact on subjective we...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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