Sentences with phrase «duper funds»

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The DUP's co-operation will surely require further investment in the grant — especially to offset the impact of Brexit and the region's loss of European Union funds.

Our investigations have found that the fine was issued to the DUP's controversial Brexit backers, the Constitutional Research Council, and that the only law it can have broken, given the size and nature of the fine, is of complying with rules requiring them to tell the Electoral Commission where their funding comes from.

@JamesK to clearly define the level of sleaze for those not aware, the # 1 billion is the estimated cost of additional infrastructure funding being provided to the Northern Ireland executive, not (directly) to the DUP itself.

The # 1 billion funding package agreed with the Tories last month, in return for the DUP's ten Westminster votes, was not conditional on a restoration of power - sharing.

In this case, it appears the Conservatives and the DUP have agreed a small tranche of additional legislation where the Tories can expect DUP support, in exchange for support for certain DUP positions, and an estimated # 1 billion of additional infrastructure funding being provided to the Northern Ireland executive.

In a letter to Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire seen by openDemocracy, Scottish National Party MP Martin Doherty - Hughes says that the public should know who funded the DUP's Brexit campaign — and points out that the Secretary of State has the power to publish all political donations since 1 January 2014 under legislation that is already on the statute books, but which has never been enacted.

After the Brexit vote, the DUP transferred # 9,000 remaining from the donation it received for its Brexit campaign into normal party funds.

(Baker subsequently received funding from the Constitutional Research Council, the secretive organisation that gave the DUP more than # 425,000 for its Brexit campaign.)

Although the DUP and the CRC maintain the funds complied with the law, a # 6,000 fine was imposed by the Electoral Commission in August this year.

openDemocracy asked DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson if he could name the individuals who funded his party's Brexit campaign.

openDemocracy contacted the DUP, the official Vote Leave campaign, and Aaron Banks» Leave.EU to ask about the source of the Brexit campaign funds.

The DUP didn't get back, Vote Leave denied any knowledge and Leave.EU said that they believe, though can't prove, that the funding came through Vote Leave.

The Electoral Commission has confirmed to openDemocracy that in the European referendum, where the whole country was treated as a single constituency, donations made to a Northern Irish party such as the DUP could be used to fund campaigning in Scotland, England and Wales, and yet Northern Irish secrecy laws still apply to this cash.

The DUP has said that the Brexit campaign funding — which the party refused to disclose until pressure in the wake of openDemocracy's revelations last week — was «a great success».

Someone may say «Alright then, lets allocate our money in one super duper well - diversified index fund and that's all», but it is not that simple.

News that the government had located the magic money tree for its # 1.5 bn deal with the DUP prompted (unsurprisingly) renewed calls for more funding for legal aid; you can read Catherine Baksi's article about this here.