Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will amend the Equality Act 2010, or bring forward new legislation, to protect volunteers from encountering discrimination in the workplace.

Volunteers are not covered by the Equality Act 2010 (the Act) because they do not meet the definition of an employee under the Act, a position confirmed by the Supreme Court in the case of X v Mid Sussex Citizens Advice Bureau [2012]. We have no plans to change this.