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Charities Bill [HL]

My Lords, I had originally proposed to oppose this amendment, because it seemed to me that putting ““and increase”” in line 4 was a potential increase in the regulatory burden. Indeed, I had been trying to persuade the Government, under new Section 1B(3)1—"““The public confidence objective is to increase public trust””—" to remove ““increase”” and put ““maintain””. I failed to achieve that earlier in Committee. I could hardly support the idea of increasing the effective use of regulatory burden implied thereby. If we are trying to find ways to increase the quantum of charitable resources by moving ““and increase”” to line 5, however, that seems to me to be a thoroughly praiseworthy objective. I am happy to support the amendment.