Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered am ar 17 Gorffennaf 2013.
Bob Neill
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (Substitute Member), Vice-Chair, Conservative Party
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what guidance (a) his Department and (b) the Certification Officer has produced on how trade unions may (i) spend monies from political funds and (ii) purchase memberships of political parties from political funds.
Jo Swinson
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has produced a guide called ‘trade union political funds: a guide for trade unions, their members and others’. The guide is available at:
The Certification Officer has produced a guide called ‘Political funds: guidance for trade unions and employers’ associations wishing to establish a political fund’. The guide is available at:
http://www.certoffice.org/CertificationOfficer/files/48/48158bbc-23a4-4032-abdf-87d56040af28.pdf
Both guides deal with the statutory provisions relating to the spending of trade union and employers' associations funds for political objectives. However, the manner in which those funds are spent is a matter for the trade union's rules.
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