PRIVATE ACTION, PUBLIC BENEFIT

Early day motion 1818, tabled 28 October 2002 by Adrian Bailey (Labour/Co-operative). Signed by 33 members.

That this House welcomes the recommendations listed in The Cabinet Office's strategy unit report 'Private Action, Public Benefit - A Review of Charities and the Wider Not-for-Profit Sector'; notes that among the recommendations the Report calls for the modernisation of laws governing co-operatives and community benefit societies and recommends that community benefit societies should also have the option, following a vote of members, to be able to choose to protect their assets in perpetuity for a public purpose and prohibit conversion into a company, thus enabling them to provide public services at a community level; and urges the Government to introduce legislation in the next Queen's Speech to push forward reform of charities and the wider not-for-profit sector.

Signatures by party: Labour 13, Liberal Democrat 10, Labour/Co-operative 8, Conservative 1, Plaid Cymru 1.