Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [HL]

My Lords, I suggest that this needs to be looked at very thoroughly. It is a nice, good, warm idea, but the structure and guidance seem completely absent. When somebody comes from an entirely different culture and environment, you cannot expect them immediately to take their place in a volunteering sense in a community. It will take time. They have to become aware of the community and its needs. Some of them will be thrilled to voluntarily volunteer; that is what they will want to do. However, we are asking the ordinary person on the citizenship path to do something that the majority of people in the UK do not do. What percentage of those in the United Kingdom volunteer? I do not know; it is a question that we cannot answer. However, we must not ask those from different backgrounds and cultures to do more than we are willing to do. I suggest that they will also come across hurdles such as CRB checks. Who will verify their CRB checks if they are new in the community? We want to see all these things work and we would love to see people integrated into our communities, but we need far more guidance than we are currently receiving.