Standards board will do, decides anti-chugger MP

By Helen Barrett, Third Sector, 25 April 2007

David Lepper MP has abandoned plans to raise questions in Parliament about the effectiveness of the Fundraising Standards Board after meeting senior staff at the organisation last week.

The Brighton Pavilion Labour MP, a fierce critic of chugging, has described attempts to regulate street fundraising as "ineffective". On its launch day in February, he questioned the independence of the board, saying he planned to raise the matter in the Commons. But after a meeting last week he said...

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