§ Lord Cocks of Hartcliffeasked Her Majesty's Government:
(i) how many of the 303 cases being investigated by the Charity Commission at the end of October 1996 were as a result of complaints of abuse; (ii) how many were from the Commissioners' own monitoring programme and the scrutiny of charity accounts; and (iii) what were the ratios between the 194 being evaluated to establish whether there was a prima facie cause for concern.
§ Lord InglewoodThe breakdown of cases requested by the noble Lord is not available for those cases which were under investigation at the end of October. The sources of the cases currently under consideration are given in the table below:
External sources Monitoring and accounts scrutiny Other internal sources Investigations 237 29 24 Evaluations 218 31 20