Question

To ask the Right hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission,with reference to the Answer of 28 April 2026 to Question 129179 on Members: Finance, what discussions the Electoral Commission has had with the House of Commons on whether an hon. Member (a) accepting an impermissible donation, or (b) not returning a knowingly impermissible donation would be a breach of the House of Commons Code of Conduct within the remit of the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner, or solely a matter for the Electoral Commission.

Members must report impermissible or returned donations directly to the Electoral Commission.

There is a Memorandum of Understanding between the Electoral Commission and the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards which sets out the agreed administrative arrangements between the two bodies. Where the Electoral Commission has reasonable grounds to suspect that an impermissible donation or regulated transaction has been accepted or entered into, and is investigating the matter, it may as part of this work approach the office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.