Further written evidence to be reported to the House
Political Parties and Elections Bill
1:00 pm
Tony Lloyd (Manchester Central, Labour)
Briefly, if I understood Professor Ewing correctly, he was suggesting that unincorporated associations, dinner clubs and so on should have a duty to report just as a political party has a duty to report, so that they would have to account for their donors in the same way. Obviously, that is to avoid the loophole that we cannot trace the original donor. What would be the trigger for a company or a dinner club to be considered reportable? Have Professor Ewing or other members of the panel given any thought to that?