Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government is taking to reduce the influence of foreign funding in democratic processes.

The Government is committed to strengthening our democracy and upholding the integrity of elections and, as stated in our manifesto, we intend to strengthen the rules around donations to political parties to protect our democracy.

We are developing proposals to give effect to these commitments and will make them public in due course. Furthermore, the Government’s Defending Democracy Taskforce brings together all work on defending democracy to allow a whole of government approach in tackling threats to those processes.