Voluntary Organisations (Wolfenden Report)

HC Deb 17 February 1981 vol 999 cc80-1W

Mr. Skeet

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he proposes to make a statement of policy on the Wolfenden report on voluntary organisations and their role in contemporary society.

Mr. Raison

As I said in reply to a question by my hon. Friend on 6 November, the Wolfenden report does not lend itself to a single definitive policy statement by the Government, but I refer him to the speech I gave at a conference on 23 January on the development of local voluntary action, copies of which have been placed in the Library.

The analysis of the response to the consultative document "The Government and The Voluntary Sector" was published in January and copies of this have also been deposited in the Library.