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Private dinners with Cameron and senior Tories have raked in well over £1 million for the Tories in the last three months - Michael Dugher
Michael Dugher MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office, commenting on Q3 2013 Donations and Loans, said:
“It looks like big money donations get you a seat at the Prime Minister’s top table.
“While donors are being wined and dined by the Prime Minister hard-working families facing a cost of living crisis are being forced to go to food banks. Once again we see that this is a Government that only stands up for a privileged few.
“Private dinners with David Cameron and senior Tories have raked in well over £1 million for the Tories in the last three months. David Cameron’s Tory Party is bankrolled by a small number of extremely wealthy donors – millionaires to whom he gave a tax cut while everyone else picks up the bill. This government is totally out of touch.”
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Editor’s Notes:
• An analysis of the last quarter’s donations published today by the Electoral Commission shows that in total, donors who attended these dinners donated £1,230,044 either in their own names or through their companies .
• All of these donors have attended Conservative Leader’s Group dinners since 1 July 2012.
Alan J Lewis £27,703.11
Alexander Temerko £5,600.00
Andrew Law* £10,320.00
Arbuthnot Banking Group* £13,760.00
Ayman Asfari £2,850.00
Bestway Cash & Carry £7,500.00
David L Mayhew £2,500.00
David Ord Ltd, £1,720.00
David Ross £18,000.00
Gary Lydiate £50,871.00
Georg Von Opel £20,100.00
Headstock Distribution £50,000.00
Henry W Davis £10,000.00
Howard P Shore* £15,000.00
Ian R Taylor £58,500.00
IPGL Ltd* £8,600.00
James R Lupton* £250,000.00
JCB Research £51,500.00
Michael Davis £8,500.00
Michael S Farmer* £250,000.00
National Conservative Draws Society [Philip Smith] £125,000.00
Offshore Group Newcastle Limited £31,720.00
Paul A Beecroft* £8,600.00
Peter R Harrison £10,000.00
Ramez F Sousou* £8,500.00
Shore Capital Ltd* £81,000.00
Stanley Fink* £9,600.00
United & Cecil Club £92,600.00
£1,230,044.11• Details of the Conservative Leader’s Group dinners since 1 July 2012 are published on the Conservative Party website:
Q1 2013: http://www.conservatives.com/Donate/~/media/Files/Downloadable%20Files/Donors/Q12013.ashx
Q3 2012: http://www.conservatives.com/Donate/~/media/Files/Downloadable%20Files/Donors/Q32012.ashx
• A total of £655,380 of these donations comes from the finance sector, including hedge funds (indicated by an asterisk in the table above).
• David Cameron promised in June to publish the results of Lord Gold’s inquiry into the cash-for-access scandal. He still has not done so.
Stephen Pound (Ealing North) (Lab): Mr Speaker, you will recall that over a year ago—you probably know the exact date—the Prime Minister announced an internal inquiry, to be led by the lustrously named Lord Gold, into the cash-for-access scandal, in which major Conservative party donors were richly, if not royally, entertained at Downing street and Chequers. When does the Prime Minister plan to produce and publish the results of that inquiry?
The Prime Minister: I am very happy to set out for the hon. Gentleman all the things Lord Gold recommended and all the steps that we will be taking
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