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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support volunteers in the third sector.

The Government is committed to enabling people of all backgrounds to contribute their time and talents to their communities through volunteering and social action. The Government supports a number of programmes which enable volunteering opportunities. Examples include:

• Through the #iwill fund £20m of government investment has been matched with more than £90m of investment from 28 partner funders. So far, this has created 500,000 high quality opportunities for young people to make change in their communities.

• The Centre for Social Action which has invested over £9m in programmes that encourage adult volunteering initiatives that bring people together and support social outcomes.