Scottish MNers in particular have always been a bit dubious about the way the Scottish Government only listens to its preferred charities in consultations etc, and suspected that they required certain things from those charities in order for them to maintain their funding.
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/1701f72c-216e-11ec-8cb7-e60ba8dbca61?shareToken=721ccfbbce44d356aa7a3e1033d47c60
Charities across Scotland are being silenced by “gagging orders” that prevent them from criticising SNP policies or backing rival campaigns as part of contracts to receive state funding.
The Scottish government denies that contracts for grant funding prohibit charities from supporting campaigns and influencing policy. However, the terms in Victim Support Scotland’s funding letter say: “No part of the grant shall be used to fund any activity or material which is party political in intention, use, or presentation or appears to be designed to affect support for a political party.”
Such conditions would pressure charities to withhold support for policies such as the Scottish Conservatives’ Right to Recovery Bill that would guarantee treatment for drug addicts as well as the Disabled Children and Young People (Transition to Adulthood) Bill, lodged by a Labour MSP.