Charities Bill [HL]

This is an eminently sensible amendment. It could be for the protection of members of the Charity Commission and its staff, because if a proper record is given it can refute any suggestion that it has removed documents or property that it has not done. It can also be a check on whether it has removed, for instance, a personal laptop computer that does not belong to the charity and is on the premises only because it happened to be on the way from the shop to the individual’s home, or on the way from the individual’s home to, for instance, where he was going to stay at the   weekend to show pictures of grandchildren to the grandparents. I wonder whether in subsection (6), as well as giving the number of persons who accompanied the individual on to the premises, the names should be given at the same time, so that there could be no dispute later as to who was or was not there.