Political Parties: Finance
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) officials have had discussions with the Labour Party on the Government's response to the Rycroft review.
Answered by Samantha Dixon
On the day the review was published, on 25 March 2026, the Secretary of State sent a letter to political party representatives setting out the government’s intention to immediately accept two of the recommendations via amendments to the Representation of the People Bill: (1) an annual £100,000 cap on total political donations and regulated transactions made by each overseas elector; and (2) a moratorium on political donations made using crypto assets, of any amount. These changes are intended to strengthen protections against foreign financial interference in UK democracy and to maintain confidence in the transparency and integrity of political donations.
The government has also had discussions with the Electoral Commission’s Parliamentary Parties Panel to seek their views on the recommendations made in the Rycroft Review and the practicalities around implementing them. All political parties with two or more sitting representatives in the House of Commons are members of this Panel.
The government is committed to responding formally and in full to the Rycroft Review in advance of the Commons report stage of the Representation of the People Bill. As part of this, the government will continue to engage across the sector, including with political parties.
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