Member

Until the 2016 Act, that was not disclosed. The last time we debated it, I had the unions’ accounts in the Chamber, and there was no reference to where the money was being spent at the time—so the 2016 Act reversed that. My reading of this Bill is that the certification officer will no longer receive details of how the money in the fund is spent, and that information will not be available to members. If they are happy, members would in fact be giving their money to a political fund.