Charity Commission
(asked on 10th March 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many complaints relating to the governance of charities were received by the Charity Commission for England and Wales in the past year; and how many of those complaints resulted in a formal investigation.
Answered by
Stephanie Peacock
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
The Charity Commission does not publish data about categories of complaints, and therefore cannot provide the number of complaints specifically relating to governance received in the past year or how many resulted in a formal investigation.
The following table details the number of regulatory concern cases opened by the Charity Commission between 2021-2025, and how many of these relate to public complaints received by the Charity Commission. Data for 2020/21 is not comparable.
Year | 2020/2021 | 2021/2022 | 2022/2023 | 2023/2024 | 2024/2025 |
Regulatory concern cases opened | N/A | 2,917 | 3,414 | 4,215 | 4,477 |
Of which is a complaint about a charity | N/A | 2,029 | 2,076 | 3,120 | 3,659 |