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Charities: Donors

Question for Department for Culture, Media and Sport

UIN 2628, tabled on 16 June 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will take steps to stop charities sharing and selling information about their donors.

Answered on

5 August 2015

In the light of the shocking revelations that have emerged about poor practice in recent weeks my Hon Friend the Minister for Civil Society has asked Sir Stuart Etherington, Chief Executive of the National Council of Voluntary Organisations, to chair a cross-party panel to conduct a root and branch review of the self-regulation of charitable fundraising. The panel will report back to him with their recommendations on 21 September.

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