The Government has responded to the Lords Select Committee report ‘The Ties that Bind: Citizenship and Civic Engagement in the 21st Century’ published on 18 April 2018.
The Committee’s first recommendation was that there should be a single minister in a single department with responsibility for coordinating all matters that relate to citizenship and civic engagement. The Government has undertaken to give further consideration to this recommendation and respond to the Committee in due course. The Government will also consider including information on volunteering in the pensions pack sent to those who reach pensionable age.