Charity Commission defends spending almost �40,000 on hotels

Charity Commission defends spending almost �40,000 on hotels: Daily Mail article lists bills from five-star venues in Cairo, Doha and Jakarta; the watchdog says hotels are often chosen for security reasons.

The Charity Commission has defended spending almost �40,000 on five-star hotels around the world, saying that staff are often accommodated in particular hotels for security reasons.

Details of the charity regulator’s spending on corporate credit cards, released to the Daily Mail under Freedom of Information Act, show that the commission spent more than �38,000 in less than two years at hotels.