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

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to introduce proposals to ease regulatory pressures on charity trustees and reduce unnecessary bureaucracy for charities.

The Charities Act 2022, which gained Royal Assent in February 2022, implemented Law Commission recommendations to reform a number of processes in charity law. These include how charities can change their governing documents, sell land, make better use of permanent endowment funds, and merge with other charities.

The Act should reduce unnecessary or burdensome regulation that increases the sector’s costs and discourages people from volunteering to become trustees, whilst preserving important safeguards. The Law Commission’s recommendations are estimated to deliver savings for charities of £28m over a ten year period.

DCMS officials continue to review the charities’ legislative framework to ensure that regulation is balanced and proportionate.