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Helping Canadians, p. 42. The date for these figures is not given, though they are recent. In 1995-96, the Commission had 600 staff (CPA, Twenty-Eighth Report, p. viii) and in 1997-98 it had 549 (Charity Commissioners of England and Wales, CC10—The Work of the Charity Commission for England and Wales in 1998, p. 5). In April 1999 there were 186,823 registered charities (Charity Commissioners of England and Wales, Press Notice 10/99, April 28, 1999, p. 1).