Electoral Commission Committee written question – answered at on 6 October 2008.
To ask the hon. Member for Gosport, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission for what reasons the Commission has not published a list of regulated donees who have reported political donations (a) late and (b) on time since 2001.
Schedule 7 to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (PPERA) requires all regulated donees to report all donations to the Commission within 30 days of accepting them if the value of the donation is above certain thresholds. The Electoral Commission informs me that between 2001 and 2007, the Commission's primary focus was on encouraging registered parties and regulated donees to comply with their statutory requirements. During that period, no record was kept of whether donations to regulated donees were reported late or on time.
The Commission now considers that parties and regulated donees have had sufficient time to acclimatise to the obligations placed upon them by the regulatory framework. Since
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