Committee on Standards in Public Life: The Funding of Political Parties in the United Kingdom
R5-62
Published October 1998
The response position records the government's reply. It does not establish implementation.
Recommendation (the Committee's words)
Limits should be placed on the campaign expenditures of political parties in respect of elections to the Scottish Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales. On the assumption that such spending limits are in place for the first elections to the Parliament and the Assembly, the limits should initially be set at £1.5 million in Scotland and £600,000 in Wales. The limits should then be index-linked. They should not otherwise be varied in future except on the recommendation of the Election Commission. (p 138)
From: Committee on Standards in Public Life, The Funding of Political Parties in the United Kingdom, October 1998