Question

To ask the Right hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what guidance has been given on whether the cost of food, drink and entertainment after an election, but where the invitation is made to voters before the election, is election spending.

The Commission’s guidance for candidates and political parties outlines that activities included as election spending are those that are made use of during the regulated period.

Any event that took place after the election would not count as a regulated activity as it is not during the regulated period.