Political Parties: Funding

Ministerial statement on Thursday, 15 March 2007, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Falconer of Thoroton.

Lords statement on the review of party funding by Sir Hayden Phillips entitled "Strengthening Democracy: Fair and Sustainable Funding of Political Parties".

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Reference

690 c904-14

Session

2006-07

Department

Department for Constitutional Affairs

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Strengthening democracy: fair and sustainable funding of political parties.
Thursday, 15 March 2007
Unprinted command papers
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 690 c911 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my noble friend makes a perfectly valid point. No doubt that is the kind of detail that ca...

Lord Lea of Crondall | 690 c911 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Fowler, referred to cleaning up the system. Does my noble and learned...

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Lord Fowler | 690 c911 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, is the noble and learned Lord the Lord Chancellor now going to endorse my words about caps...

Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 690 c911 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord heard what I said, because he was here. I do not want to be wearisome, but ...

Lord Fowler | 690 c910 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps I should declare an interest as a former chairman of the Conservative Party. There...

Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 690 c911 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I greatly welcome the noble Lord’s enthusiastic support for limits on expenditure. I also ...

Lord Shutt of Greetland | 690 c908-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, thank the noble and learned Lord the Lord Chancellor for repeating the Statement. ...

Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 690 c904-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall repeat a Statement made earlier today by my right hon...

Lord Strathclyde | 690 c907-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble and learned Lord for repeating the Statement. Given the importance of th...

Bishop of Worcester | 690 c911-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the Phillips report. It is one of those reports that seems to be about a detail ...

Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 690 c913 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the answer to the first question is yes; it should not unfairly disadvantage one party aga...

Lord Howarth of Newport | 690 c913-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, is it not in the interest of parliamentary democracy that the policy development work of t...

Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 690 c914 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my noble friend posed three questions. The first was, why public funding? All I can do is ...

Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 690 c912 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the right reverend Prelate makes a number of very important points. At the heart of this d...

Lord Goodhart | 690 c912 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as someone who was a member of the Neill committee when it produced its report on party-po...

Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 690 c912-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord identifies particular issues that have not been resolved in Sir Hayden’s re...

Lord Whitty | 690 c913 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, apart from any past interests, I ought to declare a current interest as a member of the La...

Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 690 c909-10 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I entirely agree with the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, that it was sensible to wait until...

Subjects

Campaigns

Finance

Elections

Expenditure

Electoral Commission

Political parties

Regulation

Reform

Reviews

Funding of Political Parties Review

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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