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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will use funds recovered from dormant assets to reintroduce the Access to Volunteering fund.

The government announced in January 2018 that £330m from dormant accounts would be distributed to good causes across the UK over the next four years. We have announced that the English portion of this will be allocated to help disadvantaged and disengaged young people transition into work, fund financial inclusion initiatives and, via Big Society Capital, support social investment programmes tackling homelessness and supporting local charities and social enterprises.

Decision making for deploying dormant asset funds in the devolved administrations is fully devolved.

The government encourages volunteering by people from all backgrounds and supports a number of programmes which enable volunteering opportunities. One example of this is the £40m #iwill Fund, which aims to create more opportunities for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to volunteer.