The Public Bill Committee met to scrutinise the Small Charitable Donations and Childcare Payment Bill on Tuesday 18 October 2016.

The full transcript of the Committee Stage can be read here. This follows the Second Reading on 11 October 2016 – read CTG’s summary here.

The CTG briefing on the Small Charitable Donations and Childcare Payments Bill 2016 (Committee Stage) welcomed the Bill but called on the Government to take this opportunity to clarify a number of points of uncertainty in relation to the community buildings rules and to consider the removal of the matching threshold in favour of a simpler requirement for a charity to have claimed any Gift Aid in that year (or the year before). Unfortunately, the Government did not agree to any further changes to the Bill at this stage, although we will be asking for further consideration at Report Stage.