| Heading: |
Armed Conflict: Finance |
| Question ID: |
1815064 |
| UIN: |
61483 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-20 |
| Asking Member ID: |
178 |
| Asking Member display name: |
John McDonnell
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| Asking Member handle: |
johnmcdonnellMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@johnmcdonnellMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to ban financial donations by UK citizens to the war efforts of other countries. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-09 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
5148 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Mr Hamish Falconer
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| Answering Member handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Mr Hamish Falconer
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Answer text: |
As the Charity Commission has made clear, providing aid or military supplies to any foreign armed force is not a charitable purpose, and no charity can legally undertake such activity. |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
208 |
| Answering body name: |
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |