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date	07/03/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Charities: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) a maximum level of funding for the administration and (b) guidance on the pay structure of charitable organisations to ensure that an adequate level of funding is allocated to their charitable causes.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	229768
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>Under charity law, a charity’s trustees have a legal duty to act in the best interests of the charity and its beneficiaries. This is a cornerstone of charities' independence.</p><p>Charity trustees need to consider a number of factors, including securing value for money for the charity, and the impact of their decisions on public trust.</p><p>Charities should be transparent about their administration costs, including executive pay, so that members of the public can decide whether or not they want to support the charity.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 15/03/2019 16:32:38 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1082648

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date	06/03/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Garden Bridge Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department plans to undertake an inquiry into the Garden Bridge Trust; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	229176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>The Charity Commission have scrutinised the Garden Bridge Trust trustees’ conduct and the management of the charity carefully and continue to monitor the charity’s progress in winding up. The Charity Commission intends to publish a concluding report on the running of the Garden Bridge Trust. This is to set out wider lessons policy makers and others can draw from it.</p><p> </p><p>It is important to note the Charity Commission has a specific role to look at the extent to which trustees are meeting their legal duties and whether charities are complying with charity law. It is not in the regulatory remit of the Commission to examine other issues such as the merits of a project or how it is funded.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 15/03/2019 16:36:04 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed