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Ministerial statement on Monday, 16 June 2008, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath.

Political Parties: Funding

Lords statement on the funding of political parties.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
702 c842-52 
Session
2007-08
Department
Ministry of Justice
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 702 c842-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with the leave of the House, I will now repeat a Statement made in another place by my rig...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 702 c848 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in terms of the integrity of the political process and how the public regard the political...
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Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 702 c847-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank both noble Lords for their comments on the Statement. The noble Lord, Lord Henley ...
Lord Campbell-Savours | 702 c848 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, why do we need consensus on the question of a cap? What is so desperately important about ...
Lord Henley | 702 c844-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am, as always, grateful to the noble Lord for repeating the Statement. It has been a pre...
Lord Rennard | 702 c846-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the proposals outlined are a very modest step towards the further necessary reform of the ...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 702 c849 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sure that my right honourable friends in the Treasury are always interested to hear o...
Lord Goodhart | 702 c849 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, does the Minister agree that parties should have funding in elections that is broadly on a...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 702 c848-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not think that there is much that I can add to the comments that I have already made....
Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville | 702 c851 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest as the Minister in the then-Government who reached complete agreemen...
Lord Shutt of Greetland | 702 c851 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, much as I would like to speak on the real substance of this debate, there is a very import...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 702 c851 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am not at all sure that the issue of Cranborne money is in my gift, although I note what...
Lord Grocott | 702 c849-50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, is it not the case that, while my noble friend’s Statement quite rightly focuses both on i...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 702 c849 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am responding to the noble Lord, Lord Goodhart. He will know that Hayden Phillips, in th...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 702 c851 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I always find that my noble friend brings to your Lordships’ House an entirely impartial a...
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock | 702 c851 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I assure my noble friend that I had intended to ask a non-partisan, non-contentious questi...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 702 c850 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I cannot possibly see why this would be seen as a party political measure. All the proposa...
Lord Fowler | 702 c850 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, some things in this Statement are obviously welcomed. However, the Minister said, and has ...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 702 c852 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that is not an entirely fair representation of the Government’s actions in this matter. We...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 702 c852 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, first, I agree with the noble Lord that this is a very important matter, but it really is ...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 702 c852 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have been a little too long in this job to offer any advice to my noble friend.
Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 702 c852 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is true that the Statement and the White Paper are about party financing but what we re...
Lord Hamilton of Epsom | 702 c848 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, is the Minister entirely comfortable with incumbent funds and the communications allowance...
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 702 c850 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I certainly agree with my noble friend on his general premise that money should not determ...
Viscount Astor | 702 c852 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, will the Minister remind his noble friend Lord Foulkes—in a non-partisan way, of course—th...
Subjects
Candidates Finance Elections Donors Expenditure Electoral Commission Powers Public appointments Political parties Regulation Funding of Political Parties Review
Legislation
Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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