Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to ban the charging of commission on Gift Aid.

Charities have the flexibility to decide on their own strategy for fundraising and are free to partner with other organisations to process their Gift Aid claims. It will ultimately be a commercial decision on the part of a charity to work with a fundraising platform and whether it is appropriate to pay a fee for any services provided.

Many of the fundraising platforms are voluntarily registered with the Fundraising Regulator which can act if it believes standards have been breached.