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Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill

The reason that that is a difficulty is because it cannot be relied upon to enforce the law. There is no question of trust in charities being damaged by propaganda and that kind of thing. If it were shown that charities were not obeying charitable law, that would damage trust and confidence. If the commission does not have enough resources to pursue that properly—as paragraph 4, I think, says—that is a problem. I can see that if that is justified, it is a problem, but it is a very serious problem if organisations set up to ensure that the law is observed in a particular area say that they do not have sufficient resources to do it properly.

5.15 pm.

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Reference

751 c260 

Session

2013-14

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber
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