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1083524

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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	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 he has (a) had discussions with the Charity Commission and (b) received representations on the appropriateness of the Garden Bridge Trust chair meeting the Charity Commission chair in 2013 to seek his advice on how to register the trust as a charity.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	229720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>We have no record of any discussions between DCMS Ministers and the Charity Commission about the Garden Bridge Trust. We also have no record of any representations about the Garden Bridge Trust meeting with the Charity Commission.</p><p> </p><p>As stated in Helen Stephenson’s (Chief Executive, Charity Commission) letter to you in response to PQ 221693, the Commission’s case files show that, prior to registration, two officials at the Charity Commission held a teleconference with the Garden Bridge trustees and their representatives on 12 December 2013 to provide preregistration advice.</p><p> </p><p>It is not unusual for officials at the Commission to provide pre-registration advice where applications to register are for particular high-profile or complex organisations.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 14/03/2019 14:14:04 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1083710

registered interest
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	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, what meetings (a) the chair of the Charity Commission and (b) other staff of the Charity Commission held with the Garden Bridge Trust after its registration as a charity.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	229813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2019 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Charity Commission. Helen Stephenson CBE, Chief Executive Officer, Charity Commission for England and Wales has responded with the attached letter.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 12/03/2019 18:42:19 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies attachment 1 file name CharityCommission080319.pdf title Letter from Charity Commission
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1082648

registered interest
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