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How
Political Parties are funded?
Membership
subscriptions from members.
Holding
fundraising
events.
Receiving
donations
from supporters.
Raising funds from
wealthy
individuals or banks.
Up to £2 million available in grants from the
Electoral
Commission.
Why
Party funding is
controversial
?
Party funding favours larger
parties
; in
2015
, Labour raised £51.2 million versus £3 million for the Green Party.
Puts smaller
political
parties at a loss.
Funding by
donors
and trade unions represents an unaccountable form of
political
influence.
Aspects of funding may well verge on
corruption
such as the 'Cash for
Honours'
scandal.
Steady
decline
in party membership may force parties to rely on
unaccountable
and influential donors.
Party
Funding Statistics
From
2015-17
, the
Conservative
Party received £11.3 million from prominent figures.
In the same period, Conservatives received £3.6 million from
property investors.
One individual - hedge fund manager
Angus Fraser
- donated
£1,1137,400
to the Conservative Party.
UNITE
trade union donated over
£657,702
to the Labour Party early in 2017.
At the same time,
UNISON
gave
£376,242
to the Labour Party.
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