Party Funding

Lord McCabe Excerpts

Monday 26th March 2012 Commons Chamber

[Mr Maude]

I completely agree. We approached the previous discussions absolutely in that spirit, and we will approach the new discussions in that same spirit, too. [Interruption.] I make the point again to the Labour Chief Whip, who is muttering from a sedentary position, that it was Labour’s own general secretary who said that it was Labour that blocked the last reforms.

[Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak) (Lab)]

Surely the public have a right to know how many of the Prime Minister’s donor diners made representations to the policy unit on tax policy from which they stood personally to benefit?

[Mr Maude]

There are no representations made by donors to the policy unit, which is staffed almost completely by career civil servants—unlike under the last Government.