Member

This is dreadful. We should be ashamed, and we should be doing something. We should be thinking about what interventions are going to make a difference. Noble Lords have all mentioned various things, but we will never know unless we do something about measurement to assess whether they work. The survey, which the noble Baroness, Lady Tyler, mentioned, would measure well-being but would also look at the drivers of well-being. It would look at physical exercise, nutrition and all the things that most of the analysis suggests are really important, so that we not only get data on levels of well-being but are also able to do research into what things really make a difference. Then we can start to work out which of the interventions that have been mentioned work and which do not, which is vital. Without that the Treasury will say, “This is a waste of time; you cannot prove to me that this has made any difference”.