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Voluntary Work

Volume 489: debated on Tuesday 17 March 2009

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what estimate he has made of the number of people who have volunteered in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. (263873)

Data from the Government's Citizenship Survey estimates that the following numbers of adults aged 16 and above volunteered at least once in the previous 12 months:

Formal volunteering

Number

2003

16,953,000

2005

17,980,000

2007-08

17,704,000