It is hoped that details of Labour's large pre 1997 election private office funds for senior politicians can be included when reliably available. But at the moment, this site confines itself to company donations and excludes individual gifts from wealthy businessmen.
A draft party motion calling for product labelling to ensure the public knows which party they are helping to underwrite when making a purchase is also at this site.
Information, courtesy of Labour Research,78 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8HFFax: [+44 / 0] 171 928 0621 Tel: [+44 / 0] 171 928 3649
Labour research is not affiliated to any political party and
in particular is not part of the British Labour Party.
Figures in brackets are the previous year's donation
Company Financial Donation (Previous
report date 1997/98 year)
Conservative Party
£100,000 +
Weetabix (07/97) £274,000 (£250,000)
Harris Ventures (09/97) £224,085 (£250,000)
Stadium City (09/97) £150,000 (£ 0)
Hanson (09/97) £100,000 (£100,000)
P & O (12/97) £100,000 (£100,000)
Trailfinders (02/98) £100,000 (£100,000)
Wittington Investments (09/97) £100,000 (£100,000)
£50,000 - £100,000
Racal Electronics (03/98) £ 75,000 (£ 0)
Vodafone (03/97) £ 75,000 (£ 75,000)
Robert Fleming (03/97) £ 75,000 (£ 75,000)
MacTaggart & Mickel (04/97) £ 60,195 (£ 30,125)
Derek Crowson ( ) £ 55,600 (£ 13,000)
Tomkins ( ) £ 52,000 (£ 42,000)
Political Animal Lobby (06/97) £ 50,000 (£ 50,000)
Tarmac (12/97) £ 50,000 (£ 40,000)
Guardian Royal Exchange (12/97) £ 50,000 (£ 50,000)
Siebe ( ) £ 50,000 (£ 40,000)
TI Group (12/97) £ 50,000 (£ 0)
Scottish & Newcastle (04/97) £ 50,000 (£ 50,000)
Haymarket ( ) £ 50,000 (£ 50,000)
Caledonia Investments (03/98) £ 50,000 (£ 56,000)
£10,000 - £50,000
Slough Estates (12/97) £ 42,000 (£ 21,500)
Paul Sykes ( 3/97) £ 40,575 (£214,891)
Brintons ( ) £ 40,100 (£ 27,500)
George Williamson & Co (03/97) £ 40,000 (£ 15,250)
TBI (03.97) £ 40,000 (£ 20,000)
Marks & Spencer ( ) £ 40,000 (£ 40,000)
Bestway (06/97) £ 37,150 (£ 66,000)
FKI (03/97) £ 35,000 (£ 35,000)
Gerrard Group (03/97) £ 32,172 (£ 15,000)
Katsouris (Fresh Foods) (03/97) £ 30,801 (£ 27,820)
John Swire & Sons (12/97) £ 30,500 (£ 30,500)
Adscene (05/97) £ 29,000 (£ 20,000)
Johnson Mattey (03/97) £ 27,050 (£ 26,800)
Johnson Mattey (03/98) £ 26,000
GKN (12/97) £ 25,000 (£ 25,200)
Specialist Computers (03/97) £ 25,000 (£ 10,000)
Williams Holdings (12/97) £ 25,000 (£ 0)
Dixons Group (04/97) £ 25,000 (£ 25,000)
Luxfer Group (12/97) £ 20,000 (£ 20,000)
Air Foyle (06/97) £ 18,000 (£ 600)
Singer & Friedlander (12/97) £ 15,000 (£ 10,000)
Vaux (09/97) £ 15,000 (£ 15,000)
Bryant Group (05/97) £ 15,000 (£ 0)
Foreign & Colonial Inv Trust (12/97) £ 12,500 (£ 12,500)
Saville Gordon Estates (04/97) £ 12,500 (£ 0)
Seabrook Potato Crisps (09/97) £ 11,500 (£ 1,000)
Persimmon (12/97) £ 10,000 (£ 5,000)
Highland Distillers (08/97) £ 10,000 (£ 6,000)
Shepherd Building Group (06/97) £ 10,000 (£ 16,500)
Allied London Properties (06/97) £ 10,000 (£ 0)
Scapa (03/97) £ 10,000 (£ 2,500)
Helical Bar (03/97) £ 10,000 (£ 10,000)
Helical Bar (03/98) £ 10,000
Pearce Signs (12/97) £ 10,000 (£ 2,250)
Less than £10,000
Willmott Dixon ( ) £ 9,000 (£ 11,000)
Emerson Development Holdings (04/97) £ 7,500 (£ 160)
Ash & Lacy (12/97) £ 7,000 (£ 0)
Airflow Streamlines (02/98) £ 6,000 (£ 5,000)
Westflow (03/97) £ 6,000 (£ 0)
Greig Middleton (04/97) £ 5,972 (£ 110)
Industrial Control Services (05/97) £ 5,750 (£ 0)
Buccleuch Estates (10/97) £ 5,237 (£ 2,300)
Sharpe & Fisher (12/97) £ 5,212 (£ 958)
GA Pindar (09/97) £ 5,100 (£ 725)
Northern & Shell (12/97) £ 5,000 (£ 0)
Bayfordbury Holdings (07/97) £ 5,000 (£ 0)
J Barbour & Sons (08/97) £ 5,000 (£ 10,000)
Murray Income Trust (06/97) £ 5,000 (£ 5,000)
Murray Ventures (07/97) £ 5,000 (£ 5,000)
Murray Smaller Markets (05/97) £ 5,000 (£ 5,000)
Bloor Holdings (06/97) £ 5,000 (£ 0)
Kelsey Industries (09/97) £ 5,000 (£ 2,000)
Adam & Harvey (03/97) £ 5,000 (£ 0)
CE Heath (03/97) £ 5,000 (£ 10,000)
Sidney C Banks (04/97) £ 5,000 (£ 0)
Kelly Packaging (03/97) £ 5,000 (£ 5,025)
Ranger Oil (UK) (12/97) £ 5,000 (£ 0)
Ramco Energy (12/97) £ 4,000 (£ 5,000)
Highambury (04/97) £ 4,000 (£ 6,250)
Oceana Investment Corp (03/97) £ 4,000 (£ 0)
Kilfrost (04/97) £ 3,000 (£ 3,000)
Greenwood & Coope (09/97) £ 3,000 (£ 5,000)
Berry Bros & Rudd (12/97) £ 3,000 (£ 2,000)
Newarthill (10/97) £ 3,000 (£ 600)
Majedie Investments (09/97) £ 3,000 (£ 3,000)
(£ 2,500)
Kelly Packaging (03/98) £ 2,500
Kaye Enterprises (04/97) £ 2,000 (£ 0)
Hambros (03/97) £ 2,000 (£ 56,000)
Hardys & Hansons (09/97) £ 2,000 (£ 1,000)
Henderson Electric & General IT (05/97) £ 2,000 (£ 1,000)
Leigh Interests (03/97) £ 2,000 (£ 2,000)
Middlesborough Conservative Club (12/97) £ 2,000 (£ 1,500)
Fuller Smith & Turner (03/98) £ 1,500 (£ 3,000)
Mayborn Group (12/97) £ 1,500 (£ 0)
Burn Stewart (06/97) £ 1,500 (£ 0)
Geoffrey Osborne (03/97) £ 1,000 (£ 1,000)
JA Pye(Oxford) (03/97) £ 1,000 (£ 897)
Mail Marketing (06/97) £ 1,000 (£ 2,260)
Cosalt (06/97) £ 1,000 (£ 0)
Baggeridge Brick (09/97) £ 1,000 (£ 0)
United Insurance Brokers (12/97) £ 1,000 (£ 0)
J & J Denholm (12/97) £ 1,000 (£ 1,000)
Leopold Joseph (03/97) £ 1,000 (£ 1,500)
Leopold Joseph (03/98) £ 1,000
CJ Lang & Son (04/97) £ 1,000 (£ 1,000)
Radamec (12/97) £ 1,000 (£ 1,000)
Jenners Princes Street Edinburgh (01/98) £ 900 (£ 700)
Helix Group (12/97) £ 850 (£ 850)
Adam Dale Industries (08/97) £ 500 (£ 0)
Croudace Holdings (09/97) £ 500 (£ 100)
Victoria Carpet (03/97) £ 450 (£ 0)
HFC Bank (12/97) £ 330 (£ 1,300)
Albany Investment Trust (02/98) £ 300 (£ 300)
Critchley Group (03/97) £ 275 (£ 250)
British Bloodstock Agency (03/98) £ 200 (£ 0)
Morbaine Properties (12/97) £ 100 (£ 1,100)
120 donations totalling £2,883,904
Labour Party
Political Animal Lobby (06/97) £1,052,000 (£127,000)
Caparo Group (12/97) £ 76,000 (£109,000)
GLC (06/97) £ 30,000 (£ 0)
Creation Records (07/97) £ 24,838 (£ 0)
Caledonian Mines (10/97) £ 20,000 (£ 0)
*Sun Life & Provincial (12/97) £ 20,000 (£ 10,000)
TU Fund Managers (03/97) £ 1,904 (£ 2,596)
TU Fund Managers (03/98) £ 12,000
Ranger Oil (UK) (12/97) £ 5,000 (£ 0)
Somers Handling ( ) £ 5,000 (£ 0)
Jacobs & Turner (06/97) £ 1,200 (£ 0)
Leopold Joseph (03/98) £ 1,000 (£ 0)
12 donations totalling £1,248,942
*This donation was made in December 1996 but appears in the party's 1997 accounts
Liberal Democrats
Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust (12/97) £247,525
Political Animal Lobby (06/97) £ 50,000 (£ 29,500)
2 donations totalling £137,750
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust (12/97) £ 15,000 (£ 26,000)
Northern Irland Women's Coalition
Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust (12/97) £ 10,000 (£ 7,500)
Progresive Unionists
Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust (12/97) £ 10,000 (£ 10,000)
Social Democratic & Labour Party
Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust (12/97) £ 7,500 (£ 0)
Ulster Democrats
Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust (12/97) £ 10,000 (£ 10,000)
Ulster Unionist
Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust (12/97) £ 7,500 (£ 0)
Other Organisations
Aims of Industry
Slough Estates (12/97) £ 3,000 (£ 2,500)
Centre for Policy Studies
Slough Estates (12/97) £ 2,000 (£ 2,000)
2 donations totalling £5,000
You can EMail me: Simon Gardner (sg@hack.powernet.co.uk) (I am not connected in any way with Labour Research.) |
I'd like to include EMail addresses for as many companies as possible on this page.
If you work for, or have EMail details of any of these companies, please let me know.
It's not as simple as it seems. For instance Wittington Investments is in fact the
holding company for Associated British Foods - the Sunblest bread people and
Kingfisher is the holding company for B&Q and Woolworths shops.
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