Accounts

Local party finances revealed as Electoral Commission publish statement of accounts

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on July 25, 2013, 9:30 pm

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The Electoral Commission have now published details about the 2012 accounts for all local political parties. Smaller parties with income and expenditure less than £250k were released in May and the larger parties today. This is a quick post to highlight the numbers with a variety of charts. I’ll leave it to others to start to tell the stories behind the figures … perhaps starting with the size of Sinn Féin’s legal fees and the continued lack of transparency around …

The UUP Balance Sheet

Dewi on August 5, 2011, 5:16 am

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I’m grateful to Quincey for highlighting the publication of political parties 2010 accounts by the electoral commission. Here (a small PDF file) is the UUP statement: http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/party-finance/database-of-registers/statements-of-accounts/soa/pdfs/soa_27-07-11_10-15-16.pdf That’s worth a browse. As always it’s the notes that are interesting. Notes 12, 13 and 14 show: 1) A bank overdraft of £33k 2) Longer term bank and other loans of £454k Note 17 shows this debt fell by £60k over the year. Good going in a General Election year that….. These loans …