To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the NHS of loneliness and social isolation amongst (a) elderly and (b) vulnerable people in (i) each of the last five years and (ii) during the covid-19 outbreak.
This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.
Answered on
2 December 2021
The Department has made no such estimate.
Answered by
Department of Health and Social Care
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