First Registered: 19/06/2019 • Last updated on: 10/03/2021
To evaluate current UK electoral campaigning laws, interviewing experts and practitioners in the field, producing the evidence base for recommendations that ensure electoral campaigning laws are fit for purpose in the modern era. In reconstitution the APPG's aim is to secure those recommendations in parliament.
1. Electoral Campaigning Transparency
19/06/2019 - APPGs
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2. Electoral law
17/03/2016 - Cabinet Office
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3. Electoral law
17/03/2016 - Closed organisation: Third Party Campaigning Review (Third Party Campaigning Review)
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4. Electoral Commission - written evidence
16/01/2018 - Inquiry: Disinformation and ‘fake news’ - Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee
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Found: Electoral Commission’s recommendations to improve transparency in digital campaigning made in its 2017 report
5. Electoral statistics for UK: 2016
16/03/2017 - Office for National Statistics (ONS)
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1. Third-party Election Campaigning
13/09/2018 - Lords Chamber
1: takes note of Part II of the Transparency in Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration - Speech Link
2: third-party campaigning during election periods should be controlled by legislation—that is, campaigning by non-political - Speech Link
2. Elections: Electoral Commission Recommendations
28/06/2018 - Lords Chamber
1: Commission’s report on digital campaigning and will consider its recommendations carefully. In line with - Speech Link
2: response, but he will know that the chairman of the Electoral Commission has called for legislation. Will the - Speech Link
3: understand it, will be completed later this year. The Electoral Commission is an independent body so I need to - Speech Link
3. Civil Society and the Democratic Process
27/06/2017 - Lords Chamber
1: that third-party campaigning was more transparent and accountable through the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party - Speech Link
2: charities are quite properly regulated in their campaigning activities, particularly at election times, any - Speech Link
3: that there is no legal bar to an organisation campaigning at a general or other election as long as, if - Speech Link
4. Election Expenditure
13/02/2019 - Lords Chamber
1: effectively. We are working closely with the Electoral Commission on new codes of practice for election - Speech Link
2: strong defence in court. In those talks with the Electoral Commission and the parties, will the Minister - Speech Link
3: The Electoral Commission produced a report last year, Digital Campaigning: Increasing Transparency for - Speech Link
5. Elections and Referenda: Protection Against Corruption
07/10/2019 - Lords Chamber
1: government to strengthen the integrity of our electoral system and defend it from hostile activity, including - Speech Link
2: then, the evidence of online disinformation campaigning has grown very greatly. Some of it is anonymous - Speech Link
3: Office and the DCMS Select Committee that our electoral legislation is no longer fit for purpose, will - Speech Link
Registered Contact:
Stephen Kinnock MP, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 8801.
Email: stephen.kinnock.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Kyle Taylor, Fair Vote UK, Let's Take Back Control Limited, 51 Clarkegrove Road, Sheffield S10 2NH. Tel: 07745 934 433
Email: info@fairvote.uk
Secretariat:
Fair Vote UK acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.fairvote.uk
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