Committee on Standards in Public Life: The Funding of Political Parties in the United Kingdom
R5-89
Published October 1998
The response position records the government's reply. It does not establish implementation.
Recommendation (the Committee's words)
The government of the day in future referendums should, as a government, remain neutral and should not distribute at public expense literature, even purportedly ‘factual’ literature, setting out or otherwise promoting its case. (p 169)
From: Committee on Standards in Public Life, The Funding of Political Parties in the United Kingdom, October 1998