Funding of political parties

• party funding comes from private sources such as memberships, wealthy donors and groups however these sources have decreased since the 1970s since the introduction of carborne money and short money has given some limited form of state party funding to opposite parties to hold the government to account
• short money- state funds given to opposite parties in the house of commons to cover costs and help fund scrutiny of the government
• Cranborne money- state funds for opposition parties in the HOL
• state party funding- money given to political parties to cover their costs from the taxpayer
• 2 regulations where introduced to investigate where money was coming from political parties, elections and referendums act 2000 and political parties and elections act 2009