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Bill Introduced 27 Jun 2017 ↗ Parliament

Democratic Political Activity (Funding and Expenditure) Bill [HL]

A Bill to make provision for the regulation of funding and expenditure of political parties; to make provision for the phased introduction of a cap on donations to political parties; to make provision for affiliation fees from trades unions and membership organisations to political parties to be counted as individual donations in prescribed circumstances; to make provision for the public funding of political parties; to make provision for the modification of rights of candidates and parties to election addresses; to make provision for limits on political parties’ expenditure between regulated periods; to confer powers on the Electoral Commission, and for connected purposes

Legislative progress

Lords 27 Jun 2017
1st reading
Lords 27 Oct 2017
2nd reading

Chamber debates