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 18 March 2026, to Question 118894, on Elections: Campaigns, what is the legislative basis for the Electoral Commission's guidance that an unincorporated association imprint does not need a named promoter.

The Commission’s guidance on print and digital imprints states that an unincorporated association, such as a political party, may be the promoter of campaign material. Some parties choose to have a named individual as the promoter, publishing the material on behalf of a party whose details are also on the imprint. Other parties choose to list only the party on the imprint. Both approaches provide transparency for voters, and both include a “person" as the promoter (defined in Schedule 1 of the Interpretation Act 1978 as including ‘a body of persons corporate or incorporate’).