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Political Parties and Elections Bill

I have an answer for the noble Lord: if donations which are above the recordable threshold of £500 under this Bill are made by one donor, and the total of those donations over a period exceeds the reportable threshold of £7,500 in that same year, they have to be reported to the commission. We could lower the threshold, but if we were to do so it would be a disproportionate administrative burden. The noble Lord, as I look at him from quite a long way off, does not seem entirely satisfied by what I have said and so I offer to write to him with an answer before the next stage of these proceedings. I had almost finished what I was going to say. It is for the aforementioned reasons that the Government cannot support the amendments. I hope that my noble friend at least realises that we consider this to be a very important matter, to which I know we will return at a later stage.