The Charity Commission has confirmed it has no plans to review CC9, its guidance on charity campaigning, despite warnings from within the sector earlier this year that it intended to water it down.

In the run-up to the last General Election Paula Sussex, chief executive of the Commission, suggested the regulator would consider changes to CC9 after the ballot was finished.

“We will, just after the election, review the current guidance and we are particularly looking in the run-up to the election, at an awful lot of test cases,” she said.

“It’s going to be a tightly fought election. So we are going to look at more evidence and test cases to look at the way the current guidance is working.”

Sir Stephen Bubb, chief executive of Acevo, warned earlier this year that the Charity Commission planned to re-examine CC9 in order to "water it down" and that charities face "serious trouble" as a result.

In May charity sector representatives urged Sussex not to change the regulator's guidance on campaigning during a conference on charity law, but she refused to rule out a review.

However a spokesman for the Commission today indicated that the regulator had no intention to change CC9 in the light of the election.

“There are no immediate plans to review CC9,” he said. “If we were to review it we would consult widely.”

Earlier this month Rob Wilson, minister for civil society, also appeared to give his backing to the guidance in a letter to Andrew Purkis, a former Commission board member who has spoken out frequently about the importance of charitable campaigning.