Martin John Docherty – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Martin John Docherty on 2015-10-21.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the effects of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 on the activities of charitable bodies during the 2015 general election period.

John Penrose

Section 39 of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 provides for a post-election review of the operation of the regulatory regime governing third parties at the 2015 General Election.

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts CBE is currently conducting this independent review.

Ministers must lay a copy of his report before Parliament and publish it by November 2016.