Asylum: Voluntary Work

(asked on 23rd March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to allocate funding for volunteering opportunities for people seeking asylum in (a) Yorkshire and the Humber and (b) the UK.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 28th March 2018

Our policy is clear that we encourage asylum seekers to seek out volunteering activities, which can provide a valuable contribution to their local community and may help them to integrate into society if they qualify for protection. However, we have no plans to allocate funding for this.

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