The Electoral Commission has confirmed it has launched an investigation into donations made to the Conservative party from a company linked to its deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft.

News just breaking on Sky… donations to the Conservative Party made by Bearwood Services are to be investigated by the Electoral Commission.

Here’s the full statement just released by the Electoral Commission: Donations by 5th Avenue Partners Limited to the Liberal Democrats: statement 20 Nov 2009 The Electoral Commission, the independent elections and party finance watchdog, today announced the outcome of its investigation into donations made by the company 5th Avenue Partners Ltd to the Liberal Democrats. Donations totalling ov...

The Electoral Commission has today published the records of donations to political parties for the third quarter of this year. Donations to the Conservative Party between July and September totalled £4,060,633, including £54,000 from Stuart Wheeler (pictured) - his largest...

The decision by the Electoral Commission to clear the Conservative party of breaking electoral law by using a commercial company as a front to provide millions of pounds of services to Tories fighting marginal seats is no surprise. After all the Labour Party's argument that the scale of pre-election donations, running in excess of £1m, to the centre would have meant the Conservative par...

Zac Goldsmith, the Conservative candidate for Richmond Park, is facing questions from the Electoral Commission for apparently making donations whilst not being on the electoral register. This would be against the law and the Electoral Commission has taken a hard line in other cases where donations have been made by someone not on the register, most

An Electoral Commission report has cleared the Conservative party and its deputy chairman of breaching electoral law in relation to £5.1m of donations from his company

The Electoral Commission is plugging a gap in the record of political donations following a decision to change its policy on retaining copies of constituency candidate expense returns.

Organisation investigating donations given by Conservative party deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft emerges as one of party's own donors The Electoral Commission, currently investigating donations given by Lord Ashcroft, the Conservative party's deputy chairman, has today emerged as one of the Tory party's own donors. It disclosed that it gave £100,000 to the Tories in the last qua...

Yesterday the Electoral Commission decided not to refer Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith's election expenses to the police for further investigation. Though this brings to an end official inquiries into whether Zac Goldsmith had kept within election law, the details of the Electoral Commission's rulings leave several questions about Goldsmith's expenses unanswered and also suggest that...