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1348576

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2021
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Voluntary Work
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) the NHS volunteer programme and (b) other national volunteering programmes do not conflict with or undermine programmes run by local organisations.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	36667
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2021 answer text <p>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) aims to empower local volunteering and ensure national efforts to encourage volunteering do not detract from locally-led responses.</p><p>DCMS is closely engaged with the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England &amp; NHS Improvement on NHS volunteer programmes, including the national NHS Volunteer Responders programme. In the course of those discussions, we consider local volunteering mechanisms, and how best to ensure that national NHS volunteering works with those, and that NHS volunteers and recipients of NHS volunteer services can be referred to local organisations.</p><p>In recognition of the vital role that local organisations have played in the volunteer response to COVID-19, DCMS has commissioned research on local models of mobilising volunteers across England during the pandemic. The research aims to improve the evidence base of the various models of coordinating volunteers at a local level, including the ways in which local organisations collaborated with national volunteering programmes to support community volunteering.</p><p>DCMS continues to work closely with the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise sector to assess the needs of the sector and how the government can best support it to continue its vital work. The Minister for Civil Society and DCMS officials are engaging regularly with civil society stakeholders to highlight and address key issues for the sector in responding to the COVID-19 crisis.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 27/07/2021 12:28:26 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1337917

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2021
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Voluntary Work
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment has he made of the effectiveness of local volunteer centres.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	17778
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2021 answer text <p>Local Volunteer Centres play an important role in many areas, providing support and expertise on volunteering within the local community.</p><p><br>DCMS has not conducted a specific assessment of local volunteer centres but the MoVE project, a collaboration between the Universities of Sheffield, Hull and Leeds (Lessons from Lockdown, October 2020) found that ‘existing local infrastructure and community support networks have underpinned successful community responses.’</p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 25/06/2021 13:37:50 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1337918

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2021
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Voluntary Work
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has of the comparative effectiveness of volunteering opportunities organised through (a) local and (b) national schemes.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	17779
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2021 answer text <p>Volunteering opportunities organised both nationally and locally have been an integral part of the community response to COVID-19.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Out of the various ways that people stepped up to respond to the pandemic, the Talk Together report Our Chance to Reconnect (March 2020) estimates that 12.4 million people across the UK volunteered to support their communities (<a href="https://www.britishfuture.org/our-chance-to-reconnect-the-new-talk-together-report/" target="_blank">Talk/Together: Our Chance to Reconnect</a>, February 2021), with up to 4.6 million volunteering for the first time. Of these first time volunteers, 75% say they wish to continue volunteering. With reference to volunteering opportunities organised nationally, it is worth noting that NHS Volunteer Responders have now completed more than 1.9 million tasks to support over 171,000 people at risk from Covid-19. (<a href="https://future.nhs.uk/NHSVolunteerRespondersCOVID/view?objectId=21037008" target="_blank">NHS Volunteer Responder Success Measures</a> (12 June 2020 - 16 May 2021)</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In addition to volunteer responses organised through formal channels locally and nationally, the pandemic saw huge growth in informal volunteering. The DCMS Community Life Recontact Survey (December 2020) found that the proportion of the population offering informal help on a regular basis (at least once a month) increased from 28% to 47% (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/community-life-covid-19-re-contact-survey-2020-main-report" target="_blank">DCMS, Community Life COVID-19 Recontact Survey</a>, December 2020). We saw communities rapidly mobilising to help local people, who were particularly at risk or hardest hit by the effects of isolation. Pro Bono Economics’ Civil Action report (December 2020) estimated that over 2.5 million people volunteered with over 4,000 mutual aid groups (<a href="https://www.probonoeconomics.com/civil-action-exploring-civil-societys-potential-in-the-2020s#:~:text=This%20research%20is%20a%20part,Family%20Commission%20on%20Civil%20Society.&amp;text=Civil%20society%20is%20somewhere%20we,better%20country%20and%20better%20world." target="_blank">Pro Bono Economics, ‘Civil Action: Exploring Civil Societies Potential in the 2020s’</a>, December 2020), a unique grassroots movement which has seen communities demonstrate their strength, resourcefulness and adaptability.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 25/06/2021 13:35:57 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1303426

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2021
	answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Voluntary Work
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to enhance local networks through which people are signposted to positive social action and volunteering opportunities.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
	tabling member printed	Stuart Anderson
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	170740
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2021 answer text <p>Volunteers have been critical to the ability of local communities to respond to the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. Local networks between councils, community groups, the voluntary sector and individual citizens have enabled an army of volunteers to step up and help during a time of national crisis.</p><p>Through the Covid-19 response, the government has funded the Voluntary and Community Sector Emergencies Partnership to help charities - large and small - to work together to identify and reach communities most in need, signposting volunteering needs and opportunities across a network of more than 200 organisations. Over £6million of funding for the Partnership has so far been committed up to 30th June 2021 with an option to extend should the need continue.</p><p>The government will continue to draw upon the lessons of volunteering, both from the Covid-19 period and more broadly, to develop current and future policy.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 23/03/2021 15:21:07 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
	tabling member	4742 label Biography information for Stuart Anderson