Charities Bill [HL]

I am tempted. The reason why I am tempted is because of other experiences with thresholds. I asked a question in your Lordship’s House almost 18 months ago now about intestacy rules—it is an entirely different subject. Eventually a   paper will be produced; there will be a long consultation period and it was even suggested that there might be a gap before the figures come in. It is a long time from the period when I raised the issue, but there was a problem with intestacy rules for about eight or nine years prior to that. What worries me about any form of threshold is that they seem to hang around for too long. I hear the point about it being reviewed a year after we get an Act. I think it would be a good thing if the threshold levels are constantly under review every three or five years, or something like that. The problem with thresholds is that they just seem to hang around for too long and become out of date.