In-kind Election Donations to Labour by Affiliated Trade Unions: Revisiting the Neill Committee Evidence

Abstract

This research note reconsiders evidence on 'in-kind' donations presented to the hearings on party funding conducted by the Committee on Standards in Public Life. The donation reports of the Electoral Commission, established by the Elections, Parties and Referendums Act (2000), suggest that the scale of trade unions' in-kind donations to Labour general election campaigns was greatly overstated in the hearings.