Clause 3 - Amendment of the Financial Services Act 1986
Promotion of Volunteering Bill
3:30 pm
Mrs Jacqui Lait (Beckenham, Conservative)
I am grateful to the Minister for giving way and sorry if she feels that I am hounding her—I am not—but I am interested in the tenor of her remarks as the Minister with responsibility for the voluntary and charitable sector. She talks about the need for amateur and voluntary bodies to have the highest possible standards, and nobody disagrees with that. However, the implication is that that will add significantly to their costs. Those of us who are involved in charity work know that it is hardest to raise money for back-office costs. Does she think that there are implications for the base costs of amateur and adventure bodies? If those costs are raised, the market will come into operation and we will lose even more of those bodies than we will if they do not have a proper statement of inherent risk, for instance.