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In 2002 the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit recommended that a new integrated licensing scheme should be applied to public collections for charitable purposes in order to address the main problems which arise with the current system.
The Government's consultation paper on proposals for a new local authority licensing scheme, ‘Public Collections for Charitable, Philanthropic and Benevolent Purposes’, was published on 9 September 2003, with a closing date for responses of 2 December 2003.
A written ministerial statement was made on the 27 May 2004 detailing the outcome of the consultation and how the proposals would be taken forward. The public charitable collections proposals were further developed following recommendations of the Joint Committee on the Draft Charities Bill. Details of the proposals for public charitable collections, and their impact on charities and local authorities, can be found in the Regulatory Impact Assessment which accompanied the Charities Bill.