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

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 12 February 2015 to Question 223736, which arts programmes his Department and arms length bodies fund that aim to reduce isolation.

Government funding for the arts is distributed by Arts Council England (ACE). ACE fund several organisations that aim to tackle the problem of loneliness by encouraging people to participate in culture, including, We do in West Yorkshire; Royal Exchange in Manchester; The Courtyard Centre for the Arts in Hereford; Meet me at the Albany in south east London; and Creativity Works in north east Somerset.