Known donations to UK political parties 1994/5

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The following are the known donations to political parties made by UK companies in the financial year 1994/5:

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Donations are to the Conservative Party unless otherwise indicated

Aims - Aims of Industry (Conservative front)
CPS - Centre for Policy Studies (Conservative front)
Lab - Labour Party
Lib - Liberal Democrats
Unsp - no recipient specified
There have been no donations to the Green Party

Figures in brackets are the previous year's donation

  Company                             Financial       Donation        (Previous 
report date 1994/5 year)
Adscene Group (31/5/94) £25,000 (£25,000) AHJ Investments (31/12/94) £2,500 (£2,500) Airflow Streamlines (28/2/95) £3,500 (£3,000) Albany Investment Trust (26/2/95) £300 (£300) Asda Property Holdings (31/12/94) £1,500 (£2,000) Ash & Lacy (31/12/94) £5,000 (£5,000) Austin Reed Group (31/1/95) £2,500 (£2,700) Baggeridge Brick (30/9/94) £500 (£0) Balmoral Group Ltd (31/12/94) £2,629 (£3,199) Barbour lndex (30/4/94) £3,500 (£3,500) BAT lndustries (31/12/94) CPS £5,000 (£5,000) Ben Bailey Construction (31/12/94) £250 (£200) Berkeley Group (30/4/94) £200 (£350) Bestway (30/6/94) £10,000 (£0) BET (31/3/95) £12,500 (£12,500) Black & Decker International (31/3/95) £10,000 (£10,000) BPB Industries (31/3/95) £10,000 (£10,000) Brake Brothers (31/12/94) Unsp £500 (£0) Brian Reed (Northern) (31/5/94) £10,000 (£0) Brintons (30/6/94) £3,000 (£2,500) British Vita (31/12/94) £8,750 (£7,500) Bryant Group (31/5/94) £5,000 (£10,000) Buccleuch Estates (31/10/94) £2,840 (£2,500) Burn Stewart (30/6/94) £1,500 (£1,500) Caledonia Investments (31/3/95) £57,500 (£56,000) Caledonian Mining Company (31/10/94) £50,000 (£5,000) Candover Investments (31/3/95) £5,000 (£0) Caparo Group (31/12/94) £5,000 (£2,000), Lab £54,000 (£12,000) CE Heath (31/3/95) £10,000 (£10,150) Charter (31/12/94) £30,000 (£25,000) Christies International (31/12/94) £2,500 (£2,500) Church & Co (31/12/94) £200 (£300) CJ Lang & Son (30/4/94) £500 (£500) Clayhithe (31/3/95) £750 (£0) Clugston Group (31/1/95) £1,500 (£3,000) Corob Consolidated (31/12/94) £1,000 (£1,000) Cosalt (31/12/94) £1,500 (£0) Cowie Group (31/12/94) £25,000 (£20,000) Critchley Group (31/3/95) £250 (£250) CT Bowring (31/12/94) £15,000 (£15,000), Aims £810 (£0), CPS £3,000 (£3,000) Currie Motors (30/4/94) Lab £1,000 (£0) Dewhirst Group (31/1/95) £5,000 (£0) Dickson Motors (Perth) (31/12/94) £400 (£1,350) Dixons Group (30/4/94) £25,000 (£25,000) Drambuie (31/12/94) £2,000 (£5,000) Edrington Holdings (31/12/94) £8,500 (£7,500) Electra (30/9/94) £5,000 (£5,000) Electric & General Investment (31/5/94) £1,000 (£0) Emerson Development Holdings (30/4/94) £250 (£550) English & Scottish Investors (31/1/95) £5,000 (£5,000) Ex-Lands (30/6/94) £6,000 (£2,000) Exmoor Dual Investment Trust (31/8/94) £1,000 (£1,000) F Drake & Company of Golcar (31/8/94) £120 (£320) Fenchurch (30/9/94) £1,500 (£0) FKI (31/3/95) £35,000 (£35,000) Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust (31/12/94) £12,500 (£12,500) Forte (31/1/95) £62,000 (£60,000) Frank Usher Holdings (31/5/94) £1,000 (£0) Frogmore Estates (30/6/94) £350 (£100) Fuller Smith & Turner (31/3/95) £2,200 (£2,000) GA Pindar & Son (30/9/94) £1,000 (£1,100) Gartmore Shared Equity Trust (30/4/94) £5,000 (£0) Gartmore Value lnvestments (30/4/94) £5,000 (£5,000) George Williamson & Co (31/3/95) £14,700 (£13,750) Gerrard & National (31/3/95) £15,000 (£15,000) GKN (31/12/94) £25,000 (£25,000) Glaxo Holdings (30/6/94) £60,000 (£60,000), CPS £12,000 (£12,000) Glynwed International (31/12/94) £40,000 (£40,000) Greenalls Group (30/9/94) £2,500 (£2,500) Greig Fester Group (31/12/94) £5,000 (£5,000) Greig Middleton & Co (30/4/94) £2,750 (£1,700), Aims £200 (£0) Guardian Royal Exchange (31/12/94) £50,000 (£35,000) Halliburton Holdings (31/12/94) £6,000 (£6,000) Hambros (31/3/95) £104,000 (£105,000) Hanson (30/9/94) £100,000 (£100,000), CPS £15,000 (£15,000) Hardys & Hanson (30/9/94) £1,250 (£1,250) Helical Bar (31/1/95) £2,500 (£2,500) Helix Group (31/12/94) £750 (£900) Hewden Stuart (31/1/95) £7,500 (£6,000) HFC Bank (31/12/94) £2,000 (£1,500) Highland Distilleries Co (31/8/94) £12,000 (£10,000) Hunting (31/12/94) £7,500 (£7,500) Ibstock (31/12/94) £2,500 (£0) IMI (31/12/94) £30,000 (£30,000) Inchcape (31/12/94) £40,000 (£28,000) J & J Denholm (31/12/94) £750 (£750) J Barbour & Sons (31/8/94) £5,000 (£10,000) J Saville Gordon Group (30/4/94) £15,000 (£9,616) James Finlay (31/12/94) £1,000 (£1,000) Jenners Princes Street Edinburgh (31/1/95) £125 (£500) JJ Gallagher Birmingham (31/12/94) £114,046 (£0) John D Wood & Co (30/4/94) £250 (£100) John Menzies (30/4/94) £12,000 (£12,000) John Swire & Sons (31/12/94) £25,500 (£26,500) Johnson Matthey (31/3/95) £27,100 (£0) KSR International (31/3/95) £1,500 (£100) Kelly Packaging (31/3/95) £1,150 (£1,100) Kenrick & Jefferson (31/12/94) £1,000 (£1,000) Kilfrost (30/4/94) £2,000 (£1,000) Kingfisher (31/1/95) £25,000 (£25,000) Kleinwort Benson Group (31/12/94) £20,000 (£40,000) Lamba Trading Company (31/3/95) Unsp £150 (£0) Lazard Bros (31/12/94) £35,000 (£0) Legal & General Group (31/12/94) £30,000 (£30,000) Leigh Interests (31/3/95) £5,000 (£3,905) Leopold Joseph Holdings (31/3/95) £1,000 (£1,000) Lloyds Chemists (30/6/94) £30,000 (£25,000) Lothian Distillers (31/12/94) £2,500 (£0) Lowndes Lambert Group Holdings (31/3/95) £10,000 (£0) Lucas lndustries (31/7/94) £25,000 (£25,000) MacTaggart & Mickel (30/4/94) £32,920 (£30,000) Mail Marketing Holdings (30/6/94) £2,250 (£2,250) Majedie Investments (30/9/94) £3,500 (£3,500) Marks & Spencer (31/3,95) £40,000 (£40,000) Marshall Food Group (30/9/94) £5,000 (£12,000) Matheson & Co (31/12/94) £20,000 (£20,000) McCain Foods (30/6/94) £5,500 (£6,000) McKechnie (31/7/94) £1,000 (£1,000) Meconic (30/4/94) £1,000 (£0), Lab £1,000 (£0) Miller Group (31/12/94) £5,000 (£5,000) Morrison Construction Group (31/3/95) £5,000 (£7,500) Murray Enterprise (30/9/94) £1,000 (£0) Murray Income Trust (30/6/94) £5,000 (£2,500) Murray International Trust (31/12/94) £6,000 (£2,500) Murray Smaller Markets Trust (31/5/94) £5,000 (£2,500) Murray Ventures (31/7/94) £4,000 (£3,000) Murray Vernon Holdings (30/9/94) £1,050 (£1,500) Newarthill (31/10/94) £2,000 (£6,000) Nobo Group (30/4/94) £1,325 (£0) Ockham Holdings (30/9/94) £5,000 (£0) P & 0 (31/12/94) £100,000 (£100,000) Partridge Fine Arts (31/10/94) £1,000 (£0) Paul Sykes Group (31/3/95) £10,411 (£2,925) Pearce Group (31/12/94) £500 (£600) Pearson (31/12/94) £25,000 (£25,000), Lab £25,000 (£0), CPS £10,000 (£5,000) Peel Holdings (31/12/94) £13,000 (£12,000) Persimmon (31/5/95) £10,000 (£5,000) PSIT (31/3/95) £5,000 (£5,000) Risol Imports (31/1/95) £2,000 (£1,500) Robert Fleming Holdings (31/3/95) £75,000 (£75,000) Robertson & Baxter (31/12/94) £8,500 (£7,500) Rolls-Royce (31/12/94) £35,000 (£60,000) Ropner (31/12/94) £2,000 (£2,000) Samworth Brothers (31/12/94) £10,000 (£0) Scapa Group (31/3/95) £10,000 (£5,000) Scottish & Newcastle (30/4/94) £50,000 (£50,000) Scottish Eastern Investment Trust (31/1/95) £16,000 (£16,000) Scottish National Trust (30/9/94) £20,000 (£0) Seabrook Potato Crisps (30/9/94) £1,000 (£1,000) Sears (31/1/95) £15,000 (£15,000) Shepherd Building Group (30/6/94) £20,000 (£16500) Shepherd Neame (30/6/94) £250 (£0) Sidney C Banks (30/4/94) £500 (£0) Siebe (31/3/95) £40,000 (£45,000) Sir Jacob Behrens (31/12/94) £2,000 (£2,000) Slough Estates (31/12/94) £23,000 (£21,500), Aims £5,000 (£5,000), CPS £2,000 (£2,000) Smith New Court (30/4/94) £10,000 (£0) Specialist Computer Holdings (31/3/94) £10,000 (£0) Stadium City (30/9/94) £100,000 (£0) Stadium Developments (30/9/94) £200 (£0) Sturge Holdings (30/9/94) £5,000 (£0) Sun Alliance Group (31/12/94) £50,000 (£50,000) Sun Life Assurance Society (31/12/94) £30,000 (£20,000) Suter (31/12/94) £10,000 (£8,750) Tarmac (31/12/94) £25,000 (£25,000) Tate & Lyle (30/9/94) £25,000 (£25,000), Lib £2,500 (£0) Taylor Woodrow (31/12/94) £25,000 (£5l,000) Technic Group (31/12/94) £2,750 (£1,000) Tennants Consolidated (31/12/94) £5,000 (£0) Tl Group (31/12/94) £20,000 (£0) Timothy Taylor (30/9/94) £1,000 (£1,000) Tomkins (30/4/94) £52,000 (£42,000) TR Far East Income Trust (31/8/94) £5,000 (£0) TR Smaller Companies (31/5/94) £6,500 (£0) Trafalgar House (30/9/94) £40,000 (£40,000) UCC (31/12/94) £10,000 (£20,000) United News & Media (31/12/94) £33,000 (£34,000) Vaux Group (30/9/94) £15,000 (£15,000) WA Baxter & Sons (31/5/94) £5,000 (£0) Wagon Industrial Holdings (31/3/95) £5,000 (£0) Weetabix (31/7/94) £1,100 (£0) Weir Group (31/12/94) £7,500 (£7,500) William Baird (31/12/94) £10,000 (£5,000) Williams Holdings (31/12/94) £25,000 (£25,000) Wilson (Connolly) Holdings (31/12/94) £1,500 (£8,500) Wittington Investments (30/9/94) £150,000 (£150,000) Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries (30/9/94) £10,000 (£0) Wylies (1989) (30/9/94) £4,775 (£1,000)


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