Sentences with phrase «backdated transparency»

The UK government is planning to ignore new demands from Northern Ireland's political parties for backdated transparency on political donations — effectively barring the public from knowing who gave a controversial # 435,000 to the Democratic Unionist Party's Brexit campaign.

But, crucially, he has gone back on a prior commitment to backdate transparency to 2014 so that the source of the vast DUP donation could be revealed — despite calls from all the Northern Irish political parties (apart from the DUP) to do so.

Rather than backdate transparency rules to 2014 — which would reveal the source of the # 435,000 DUP cash — Brokenshire announced earlier this year that the change, which will be made through secondary legislation, would only apply to donations and loans received after 1st July 2017.

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During the heated and often angry debate in Commons committee, Smith claimed the government had consulted the Electoral Commission, fulfilled its statutory obligations and insisted there was «widespread support» among parties in Northern Ireland for no backdating of transparency other than from July 2017.