Cabinet Office written question – answered at on 16 January 2014.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office when the decision to give the Plymouth Brethren charity status will be made.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Charity Commission. I have asked the Commission's chief executive to reply.
Letter from Sam Younger, dated
I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question to the Minister for the Cabinet Office asking when the decision to give the Plymouth Brethren charity status will be made.
The Charity Commission announced on
In our decision the Commission said we are satisfied that under the new governing document the organisation is charitable and that the Commission will be able to regulate the charity against the new trusts.
This application was made as a precursor to similar applications to be made in due course by the trustees of other meetings halls held for the purposes of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church and, as such, was seen as a test case for other Plymouth Brethren meeting halls.
The full decision is available on the Commission's website and, recognising the considerable Parliamentary interest in this registration case, I have placed a copy in the House of Commons library.
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