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Ministerial statement on Monday, 16 June 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Jack Straw.

Political Parties (Funding and Expenditure)

Statement on the funding of political parties.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
477 c691-703 
Session
2007-08
Department
Ministry of Justice
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Tony Lloyd | 477 c697 (Link to this contribution) If my right hon. Friend intends to proceed, as I think that he is right so to do, on the basis that ...
Jack Straw | 477 c696-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has had time to read the White Paper because it was sent to him, as it was to the...
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Viscount Hailsham | 477 c697 (Link to this contribution) I very much regret the omission of any proposals to impose a cap on donations. They would be welcome...
Jack Straw | 477 c697 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. Our White Paper includes a lot of detail about how it is thought donati...
George Howarth | 477 c697 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the general thrust of my right hon. Friend's proposals in the White Paper, particularly as...
Jack Straw | 477 c697 (Link to this contribution) We are ready to answer that for which I am here to answer. We were ready to negotiate an arrangement...
Lord Beith | 477 c698 (Link to this contribution) Bearing in mind that Sir Hayden Phillips's proposals were based on the unanimous views of the Consti...
Jack Straw | 477 c697-8 (Link to this contribution) I understand that, and we all need to understand that Sir Hayden Phillips estimated that, at £50,000...
Speaker | 477 c696 (Link to this contribution) Order. A considerable number of Members are hoping to catch my eye. Time is limited and there is a f...
Chris Huhne | 477 c696 (Link to this contribution) I am also grateful for prior sight of the Justice Secretary's statement and the White Paper. We Lib...
Jack Straw | 477 c694-5 (Link to this contribution) I greatly regret the tone adopted by the right hon. Gentleman, and his unsuccessful and thin efforts...
Lord Maude of Horsham | 477 c693-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement and of the White Paper. I think th...
Jack Straw | 477 c691-3 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I would like to make a statement about the funding of political partie...
Gavin Strang | 477 c701 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on not bringing forward a scheme for the state funding of po...
Lord Tyrie | 477 c701 (Link to this contribution) I participated in the talks from start to finish, and the Lord Chancellor's description is a travest...
Jack Straw | 477 c700 (Link to this contribution) We are not talking about a veto for any one party; we are talking about areas on which it is clear t...
Jack Straw | 477 c701 (Link to this contribution) That is completely untrue, and the hon. Gentleman knows it. I believe that he was among those who si...
Jack Straw | 477 c699-700 (Link to this contribution) I honestly do not think so. That issue was not raised by Neill or during the passage of the 2000 Act...
David Heath | 477 c700 (Link to this contribution) Sir Hayden Phillips did a very good job during the talks, in which I played a part, in establishing ...
Jack Straw | 477 c700 (Link to this contribution) I share the hon. Gentleman's disappointment. He was party to the talks, and he represented his party...
Martin Linton | 477 c700 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's proposals to close the loopholes on unincorporated associations and...
Peter Bone | 477 c699 (Link to this contribution) Will not the reintroduction of the trigger give more power to the national party and less to local c...
Jack Straw | 477 c699 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the central burden of what my hon. Friend has said. The £20 million cap would be better...
Chris Mullin | 477 c699 (Link to this contribution) May I put it to my right hon. Friend that in the long term the key is to insert caps on spending rat...
Jack Straw | 477 c699 (Link to this contribution) I am not sorry to tell my hon. Friend that there are clear rules against making provisions that carr...
Lord Beamish | 477 c699 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's proposals on unincorporated associations—a mechanism that has been ...
Jack Straw | 477 c699 (Link to this contribution) The recommendation on the communications allowance happened to be a unanimous one from the House of ...
Nigel Evans | 477 c698-9 (Link to this contribution) The Justice Secretary is right in thinking that the great British taxpayer would be horrified at the...
Lord Whitehead | 477 c698 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the direction of my right hon. Friend's statement this afternoon and the proposal to intro...
Jack Straw | 477 c698 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I accept that, and Sir Hayden Phillips and previous reports have recommended that continuous, a...
Jack Straw | 477 c698 (Link to this contribution) First, may I offer my congratulations and, I believe, those of the whole House to the right hon. Gen...
Jack Straw | 477 c703 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept that. I know that the hon. Gentleman has a different viewpoint about the relationshi...
Speaker | 477 c703 (Link to this contribution) Order. Will Members who do not wish to stay for the statement by Secretary Miliband leave quickly an...
Bob Spink | 477 c702 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman know how offensive it is to ordinary members of the public who value o...
Crispin Blunt | 477 c702-3 (Link to this contribution) I was not minded to ask a question until I heard the sanctimonious bilge from the hon. Member for Ea...
Lord Swire | 477 c703 (Link to this contribution) The Lord Chancellor is right to talk about public perception, but does he not accept that the public...
Jack Straw | 477 c703 (Link to this contribution) I do not approve of that practice, and I have never followed it myself. We had a great debate about ...
Christopher Chope | 477 c702 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Lord Chancellor on ruling out further taxpayer funding of political parties. Will...
Jack Straw | 477 c702 (Link to this contribution) There are no proposals in the White Paper for individual registration, but I am grateful to the hon....
Jack Straw | 477 c701 (Link to this contribution) Yes, they do; we accept that. I dealt with the issue of the 1983 trigger, to which, I notice, no Con...
Jack Straw | 477 c702 (Link to this contribution) I look forward to my hon. Friend raising that issue during the passage of the Bill. Meanwhile, if he...
Andrew Miller | 477 c702 (Link to this contribution) The Conservatives in Ellesmere Port have adopted a new scam on their website; they are acting a bit ...
Jack Straw | 477 c701 (Link to this contribution) There are a number of imaginative proposals for additional state funding, including the Power commis...
Jo Swinson | 477 c701 (Link to this contribution) Tight caps on individual donations and spending are essential to public support for the proposals, a...
Jack Straw | 477 c702 (Link to this contribution) I think that the independent hon. Member for Castle Point (Bob Spink) was referring to his former co...
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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