DISABLED PEOPLE AND VOLUNTEERING

Early day motion 846, tabled 25 October 2005 by David Drew (Labour). Signed by 93 members.

That this House welcomes new research from Scope's Year of the Volunteer on tackling discrimination against disabled people in volunteering; notes that volunteering is a valuable route to other opportunities including training and paid employment; further notes the Government's aim to get more disabled people off benefit and into paid work; is concerned that there is no financial support for organisations to make reasonable adjustments for disabled volunteers and that as a result disabled people are under-represented as volunteers; and calls upon the Government to create a similar scheme to Access to Work to fund reasonable adjustments for disabled volunteers.

Signatures by party: Labour 53, Liberal Democrat 17, Conservative 9, DUP 6, Scottish National Party 4, Plaid Cymru 2, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1, UUP 1.