Party Funding Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Party Funding

Steve McCabe Excerpts
Monday 26th March 2012

(12 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Maude of Horsham Portrait Mr Maude
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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 Portrait Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak) (Lab)
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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?

Lord Maude of Horsham Portrait Mr Maude
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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.