HC Deb 07 February 1989 vol 146 cc581-2W
Mr. Skinner

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will introduce legislation to provide that bodies acting solely as channels for contributions to political bodies shall be disbarred from charitable status.

Mr. John Patten

[holding answer 6 February 1989]: No organisation that acted solely as a channel for contributions to political bodies could lawfully be a charity.