To ask the Right hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, pursuant to the answer of 9 June 2026, to Question 5423, on Political Parties: Finance, what assessment the Electoral Commission has made of the potential impact of (a) the new corporate donation provisions in the Representation of the People Bill and (b) the proposed sponsorship guidance issued by the Electoral Commission to the Parliamentary Parties Panel on the ability of (a) Facebook/Meta, (b) Google/Alphabet, (c) Uber and (d) the Bank of America to undertake sponsorship of party political conferences.
The Commission identified variations in practice between parties in identifying and reporting sponsorship and has developed updated guidance to clarify this area of the law.Sponsorship is a type of political donation with permissibility and reporting requ...
Political Parties: Finance