Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the effect on charitable donations of the Information Commissioner's Office investigation into wealth screening by fundraising services.

The Information Commissioner’s Office’s investigations into charities’ fundraising practices, including wealth screening, have focused on non-compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. We have not made an assessment of any effect on charitable donations resulting from compliance with existing law.