Charities: Pay

(asked on 3rd September 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of levels of pay for Chief Executive Officers in the charity sector on levels of public trust in that sector.


Answered by
Tracey Crouch Portrait
Tracey Crouch
This question was answered on 11th September 2018

Setting executive pay is a matter for a charity’s trustees to determine, acting in the best interests of their charity. In doing so the 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. Charities should also be transparent about executive pay so that members of the public can decide whether or not they want to support the charity. Larger charities must already report some information on executive pay through their trustees’ annual report. The Charity Commission will update its annual return to require information from charities on executive pay, which will be made more easily accessible to the public on the register of charities.

In July 2018, the Charity Commission for England and Wales published a report into public trust and confidence in charities. In the report, the public make clear that transparency about the distribution of funds and the impact of their donations is critical to their trust in charities.

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