Links

The links below are for reference or personal use and do not represent an endorsement by Sir Hayden Phillips or the Review of the Funding of Political Parties.

The Electoral Commission
The Electoral Commission is an independent body established by Parliament. It has responsibility for the regulatory issues related to party funding.
The Electoral Commission recently published an interim report on public attitudes to party funding: Public Perspectives: The future of party funding in the UK – Interim Report.
The Electoral Commission The Funding of Political Parties Report - December 2004.
The Electoral Commission's Issues Paper and Background Paper "The Funding of Political Parties" May 2003.

Constitutional Affairs Committee (CASC)
The Constitutional Affairs Committee has also undertaken an inquiry into the issue of party funding. The Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, policy and administration of the Department for Constitutional Affairs, which was the lead department on party funding, until the Prime Minister's announcement of 6 May 2006 transferring this brief to the Leader of The House of Commons.
CASC published its First Report of Session 2006-07 on Party Funding in December 2006.
The Government published its response to the CASC Report on 15 May 2007.
The Committee on Standards in Public Life
The Committee on Standards in Public Life published its fifth report in 1998 entitled The Funding of Political Parties in the United Kingdom.
CSPL recently published its eleventh report entitled Review of the Electoral Commission.
The New Politics Network
The New Politics Network has a party funding page on its website.
Unlock Democracy (a campaign run by Charter88 and the New Politics Network) have recently published research on the state of politics at a grassroots level: Local Politics: A Case for Treatment?
Council of Europe
The Council of Europe published a report by Ingrid Van Biezen in 2004 called Financing Political Parties and election campaigns.
Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr)
The ippr published a report in 2002 called Keeping It Clean: State Funding of Political Parties
The Catalyst Forum
The Catalyst Forum is a thinktank that published a report by Professor Keith Ewing, which can be bought from their website.

Trade Unions, the Labour Party, and Political Funding: The next step: reform with restraint - Professor Keith Ewing, 2002
The Hansard Society
The Hansard Society published a report this year called Paying for Politics - The Principles of Funding Political Parties
The Young Foundation
The Young Foundation published a report this year called Parties for the Public Good
Demos
Demos published a report this year called Serving a cause, serving a community
Adam Smith Institute
The Adam Smith Institute published a report in 2000 called None of the Above

International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA)
International IDEA published a report in 2003 called Funding of Political Parties and Election Campaigns

Transparency International (UK)
Transparency International (UK) recently published a report called Corruption and the Funding of Political Parties
Social Market Foundation

To know more about the Parliamentary institutions and other authorities whose funding is covered by this Review follow the links below.

Page last updated: 16 May 2007