Party Funding Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Party Funding

Andy Slaughter Excerpts
Monday 26th March 2012

(12 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Maude of Horsham Portrait Mr Maude
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I would add to that the Warwick agreement of 2004, when the leadership of the Labour party sat down with the leadership of the trade union movement and did a straightforward cash for policy deal.

Andy Slaughter Portrait Mr Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith) (Lab)
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If the Minister is right that the bankers, insurers, property developers and private health companies get nothing at all for the millions of pounds they give the Tory party, will he publish details of not only when they have met the Prime Minister and how much they have given, but what policies were discussed at those meetings?

Lord Maude of Horsham Portrait Mr Maude
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I say again that we have been more transparent than any Government have ever been. I invite the hon. Gentleman to ask the leader of his party, and its previous leaders, who were Prime Ministers, to disclose even a fraction of what we are already disclosing.