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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether any assessment has been made of the level of foreign funding of (a) far left and (b) far right non-party organisations in the United Kingdom.

Electoral law regulates donations to registered non-party campaigners. Non-party campaigners spending over £10,000 during a regulated period have to register with the Electoral Commission and can only accept donations from permissible sources.

The government welcomes the Rycroft Review recommendation on non-party campaigning and agrees that the current rules need to be strengthened.