I also wish to thank Caroline Jones for giving me a minute in this debate. I’ve spoken on loneliness in this Chamber several times, and it’s an issue that really does concern me. I intend just to give two examples of loneliness: first the woman who visited me in surgery three times. I asked her after her third visit what she wanted me to do to help her. She replied, ‘I come and see you, because you and the checkout assistant at Somerfield are my only two friends—the only people I speak to.’ The second is someone who visited me in another surgery and used to work in the media. Her husband had died and she had moved to a new estate, and she was the only person at home all day—good for taking in deliveries, but it meant she saw no-one all day. Remember, we can all end up being lonely.
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